New Delhi: A report by The Hindu shows that Form 7s – through which deletions to a voter roll are filed – continue to be thoroughly misused in Delhi in the ongoing and contentious special intensive revision of electoral lists.The report also shows that booth-level agents (BLAs) bypassed the Election Commission’s cap on submitting only 10 applications a day during the claims and objections phase by filing through the panel’s ECINET portal, which has no such restriction in place.This portal and its centralised control have emerged as some of the most flagrant topics in the SIR ever since Indian Express broke the news that two Election Commissioners have expressed formal objections to how it is run, among other things.The Hindu’s analysis of Form 10 reports, which is the public list of all objections to the inclusion of names in electoral rolls, between September 21 and 27, shows that four individuals filed more than 10 applications a day.The ECINET software has no mechanism to impose the prescribed limit of 10.A Bharatiya Janata Party BLA named Chitresh Chandoliya has filed 35 objections in two days, the report says – 12 on September 21 and 23 on September 22. Chitresh is the son of BJP’s North West Delhi MP Yogender Chandoliya. He admitted to the newspaper that had he submitted these forms to the EC office in person, he would not have been allowed more than 10.“I log in like any other citizen and use Aadhaar authentication to fill forms. There is no section to specify that I am a BLA,” he said.Election Commission guidelines state that BLAs of recognised political parties may file applications in bulk, subject to the condition that a BLA “shall not submit more than” 10 forms a day after publication of the draft electoral roll.The Hindu visited some of the houses whose occupants Chitresh had filed Form 7s against and found a resident, Karnail Singh, at his address. Chitresh claimed to the paper that he had sought Singh’s removal from the rolls as he “lives far from his booth”.Incredibly, according to the report, 20-year-old Apoorv Dwivedy of Sangam Vihar appeared to have filed an objection through Form 7 against his own name citing ‘death’ as the reason.The report identifies more anomalies.All Form 7s filed by the BJP BLA for residents of Karol Bagh cited ‘absent/permanently shifted’ as the reason. He said people concerned either did not live at the addresses mentioned in the roll or had sold their houses, including 15 women who married and moved out of the area or city.The paper also checked Patel Nagar’s Part 38, where a person named Raj Singh had filed objections against 13 names on September 26. Several houses shared the same number there. Brothers Danish Khan and Toufiq Khan live at the address mentioned in the draft roll but their named had been challenged on the grounds of being ‘absent/permanently shifted’. The two were none the wiser.As The Wire has reported in the case of Bengal, more Form 7 applications were disposed of than applications under Form 6, despite the latter being higher in number.The mass deletion of voters through Form 7 was a feature of the Bengal SIR and affected Muslim voters the most. The Wire has also exclusively reported that more than 16 lakh appeals seeking the removal of voters cleared during West Bengal’s SIR were generated through bulk updates, and were not individually filed by officers, show records.This was also seen in Odisha, where a voter told The Wire, “The person who submitted Form 7 does not even live in my neighbourhood – he lives nearly 20 miles away. How could he possibly know whether I am still living here, have moved elsewhere, or whether I have died?”For our full coverage on the SIR and the issues it has brought to citizens, click here.