India, Sept. 4 -- More than four in 10 names marked for deletion from Hyderabad's electoral rolls belong to people with Muslim names, according to a preliminary analysis of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists.

The study by the Sabar Institute and Constitutional Guardians Forum identified 1,941,444 electors across Hyderabad's 15 Assembly constituencies as being marked for deletion. The figure accounts for about 46.1 per cent of the city's January 2023 electoral roll.

The analysis, first reported by Maktoob Media, found that 40.7 per cent of the flagged entries belonged to people with Muslim names. The researchers, however, noted that this was an estimate based on name matching, as the Election Commission does not ...