BENGALURU, Oct. 5 -- The Karnataka police have obtained a court search warrant to search the office premises of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) corporator and the party's booth level agent (BLA) Motkar Srinivas submitting representations to remove over 7,500 people from the electoral roll in Ballari, a police officer said on Monday.

A first information report (FIR) was earlier registered against Motkar Srinivas on a complaint filed by a Congress BLA Gautham.

"The case relates to a representation Srinivas submitted to election officials on September 21 seeking action against 7,561 voters in the Ballari City assembly constituency. He cited reasons such as voters having shifted residence, being registered elsewhere or being absent," said the ...