Mumbai, July 14 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kirit Somaiya on Tuesday alleged major irregularities in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Mumbai's Bandra East, claiming that election officials "mapped" over 1,200 voters from a colony that no longer exists.

In a letter addressed to the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Maharashtra, S. Chockalingam, Somaiya raised concerns over the inclusion of voters from 'Garib Nagar,' an unauthorised settlement on railway property that was recently demolished.

"We are shocked that the concerned block-level officials in the first round of SIR have cleared the mapping of 1,296 voters out of 2,412 voters of Garib Nagar, Bandra East. It may please be noted that the G...