India, Oct. 26 -- Uttar Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa on Monday rejected allegations of caste bias over erroneous entries in voter slips, saying computers and software were not casteist, while warning that those responsible for circulating forged voter slips would face action under the law.

Rinwa was responding to AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh, who questioned Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over a voter slip in which the name "Ramhit Yadav" was rendered as "Ram ne Yadav ko Maara" (Ram hit Yadav).

In a post on X in Hindi, Singh asked why Ram had hit only a Yadav and not people bearing surnames such as Singh, Pathak, Asthana, Sharma, Rai or Bisht. He also questioned whether the computer was casteist or being us...