India, April 8 -- Around nine million names were deleted as part of the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on Tuesday, adding that roughly 2.71 million of those voters were removed following adjudication as part of the controversial "logical discrepancy" category.

The announcement - which came just weeks before Bengal goes to the polls in two phases - also said that the Muslim-majority district of Murshidabad recorded the highest number of deletions under the logical discrepancy category. The border district of Nadia - home to large numbers of Dalit communities who came to India as refugees in the decades following Partition - saw the highest percentage of ...