India, Sept. 14 -- This writer must admit to a vested interest in this story, as the Election Commission office in New Delhi erased his wife from the national capital territory's electoral rolls, and restored it only after many months of a doughty fight by the family.

This was the national capital, a well-known senior citizen, albeit a Catholic, and it is a moot question whether it is an ingrained issue of the scanning software algorithm, itself a matter of concern, or human intervention, when it becomes a matter of a criminal complaint.

Not far from the offices of the Election Commission of India, the Registrar General of India, known in official records as the Census Commissioner, has announced that population enumeration for Census ...