India, Oct. 25 -- Following a complaint by a Congress MLA, the election authorities have registered the first FIR in the state against a Dharavi resident for submitting 24 applications seeking the deletion of others' names from the electoral rolls. More such criminal action is likely across the state, and district-level election officials have been directed, through an order issued by the Election Commission of India (ECI), to act against those filing false objections using Form 7.

A delegation led by Congress MP Varsha Gaikwad met Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) S Chockalingam last week and raised several issues related to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the state's electoral rolls. The delegation alleged that Form 7 was being mis...