New Delhi, Oct. 30 -- As many as 28 Muslim residents in Delhi's Mustafabad constituency were marked as dead or permanently shifted using Form 7 applications despite living in the locality for years, The Hindu said.

Sajid Hussain has lived in the Dayalpur neighbourhood of the north-east Mustafabad constituency for over twenty years and was troubled to learn that an unfamiliar individual had filed Form 7 applications seeking to delete his wife's and son's names from the electoral roll.

Hussain's wife Afsana Khatoon and son Asad Raza Zaidi were two of the 28 voters against whom Form 7 applications were filed, citing "absent, permanently shifted or death" as the reason. At least 19 of them had valid identity documents as proof and were foun...