Bengaluru, Oct. 19 -- Karnataka's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has revealed a series of unusual entries, including 37 applications where voters reportedly sought deletion of their own names by claiming they were dead.

Another 334 cases involved pairs of voters who submitted forms declaring each other deceased, according to an analysis of Election Commission records published by The Hindu.

Most of the applications in which voters cited their own death as the reason for removal were filed before SIR officially commenced in Karnataka (on June 30). Some were submitted even before the final draft rolls.

The cases involving mutual death declarations were identified in more than 25 districts. Belagavi accounted for the ...