India, Oct. 23 -- Sanjay Kumar, the Deputy Election Commissioner who headed the Election Commission of India's Electoral Rolls and IT divisions and signed the order for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, was repatriated to his parent AGMUT cadre on August 24, according to a Department of Personnel and Training order cited by the portal Legend Officers.

The repatriation was proposed by the Commission itself, and cited personal grounds, the report said. The text of the order was not independently available.

Kumar's exit came weeks after Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi wrote separately to Union Cabinet Secretary T V Somanathan on July 29, flagging a work allocation order issued by S...