New Delhi: A Special Investigation Team of the Karnataka Police investigating the alleged voter theft in Aland constituency has reportedly collected CCTV footage from the residence of former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Subhash Guttedar.The SIT has said that the CCTV footage allegedly shows Guttedar’s associates trying to destroy documents which were Aland voter lists, reported Indian Express.While opposing the anticipatory bail pleas filed by Guttedar, his son Harsha Guttedar and an associate, Tipperudra, in the Aland case, a Karnataka government prosecutor on Thursday (October 30) cited the existence of this CCTV footage and the recovery of a digital video recorder from the home of Guttedar.The special court directed the SIT to submit the case diary on the investigations conducted so far and adjourned the hearing. The court also observed that the criminal sections invoked in the case were all bailable.In their anticipatory bail plea, the trio has said that the case pertaining to the alleged voter deletion in Aland is politically motivated and the FIR didn’t name them.The state government countered this Thursday, and said that the case could not be seen as politically motivated as the FIR had been filed by local EC officials after a preliminary inquiry on Congress’s Aland candidate B.R. Patil’s complaint.“The DVR from the residence of the petitioner has been recovered and sent for forensic analysis. A mirror image of the DVR which has been retrieved under due process has revealed the burning of materials,” the prosecutor told the court.Guttedar, who lost to Patil by 10,348 votes in 2023, has denied any links to the alleged illegal voter deletion attempt.Earlier, the SIT’s investigation had revealed that a data centre used to illegally make online applications for deletion of names might have been used for manipulation of voters lists in the other constituencies.The SIT is also reported to have also unearthed a “call centre-like” setup where Rs. 80 was paid to make each of those over 6,000 fraudulent applications.The alleged Aland vote theft scam is one among the few constituencies that Congress’s Member of Parliament and Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi cited in his press conference a month ago. The allegations of vote theft in Aland constituency were first raised in 2023.Last month, the SIT accused the Election Commission of not cooperating with them in the investigation and allegedly not providing them with the vital digital evidence to follow the theft trail.