By The Hindu Bureau
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The State government on Saturday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), led by B. K. Singh, Additional Director-General of Police (ADGP), Criminal Investigation Department (CID), to probe the Aland “voter fraud” case.
This comes two days after Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, flagged the case at a press conference in Delhi on Thursday.
The Hindu was the first to report on the case, where 5,994 voters were sought to be deleted from electoral rolls through forged Form 7s in the run-up to the Assembly polls in 2023.
The CID probe into the case has hit a dead end with the Election Commission of India (ECI) not sharing key technical data reportedly needed to identify the culprits, despite 18 letters from the agency seeking it, The Hindu reported on September 7, 2025.
The SIT will have Saidulu Adavath, Superintendent of Police, Cybercrime Division, CID, and Shubhanvita, Superintendent of Police, Special Enquiries Division, CID, as members.
The order constituting the SIT gives the team police station powers and directs the State police chief to transfer the FIR registered in the Aland case and hand over any other related cases either already registered or those that will be registered in the future to the SIT.
Mr. Singh has earlier led SIT probes into the murders of editor-activist Gauri Lankesh, scholar M.M. Kalburgi, crimes of former MP, Prajwal Revanna, and alleged crimes of Munirathna, MLA.
The SIT probe led to the conviction of Prajwal Revanna in just over a year after the scandal broke out. He has also been leading probes into other high-profile cases like the POCSO Act case against former Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa and the recent stampede during RCB victory celebrations in Bengaluru.
