New Delhi: Applications seeking removal of more than 4,000 names from the electoral rolls, most of them belonging to Muslim voters, have been submitted in multiple Assembly constituencies across Karnataka, the Form 10 statutory report shows. The report compiles the details of objections filed under Form 7 as a part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, The Hindu’s Rishita Khanna reported.In some cases, the voters’ details were “already printed” on the forms, and only the names of the people objecting were written by hand.BabaleshwarOn September 22, in Babaleshwar constituency in Bijapur, represented by Karnataka minister M.B. Patil, 1,373 Form 7 applications were received. Ten individuals had filed a total of 1,363 forms. Most of them sought the removal of Muslim voters registered at polling stations where they themselves didn’t vote.Also read: How a Campaign Against Muslim Voter Deletions – Aided by a Report on The Wire – Forced the Election Commission to ActAs per the report, Huchappa Ganiger, a voter in the constituency, submitted 493 applications on September 22 and 23, covering roughly 30 polling stations and mostly targeting Muslim voters. He filed 423 Form 7 applications on September 22, a day before the window for claims and objections closed, and a further 70 on September 23. The data also lists several other people with multiple objections to their name.On September 23, another voter, Govindaraj Mundur, filed 413 applications spread over 33 polling stations, the report added.BhalkiThe data points to a similar trend in Bhalki in Bidar district, which is represented by minister Eshwar Khandre.On September 23, at least 30 people together sought the deletion of over 1,700 names. Several of them had also filed a number of Form 7 applications the day before. One voter named Santosh submitted 54 on September 22 and 120 applications on September 23.Also read: How the Karnataka SIR Punished Dalit People, Muslims, Migrants and the PoorIn two instances in Bhalki, the objector’s details were handwritten while the names of the voters proposed for deletion were already printed on the form, the report noted.Basavakalyan and BelthangadyBoth Basavakalyan and Belthangady constituencies are represented by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).In Basavakalyan in Bidar, a voter named Siddappa filed 32 of the 37 Form 7 applications received in a single day. Each form named Muslim voters from one polling station, Part No. 163, TH reported.In Belthangady in Dakshina Kannada, Umesh Bangera filed 21 applications against Muslim voters at a single polling station, Part No. 47. The ground given for deletion is “Absent/Permanently Shifted”.Other statesOn September 2, The Wire published a ground report highlighting concerns over attempts to remove the names of Muslim voters from the electoral rolls through Form 7 during the SIR process in Odisha’s Bhadrak. Following the publication of the report, the Election Commission of India (ECI) eventually suspended a key official over suspected irregularities.As per an analysis by The Wire, the ECI received 34,13,481 Form 6 applications in West Bengal. Of those, the roll was successfully updated for 7,07,606 citizens, with another 14,079 marked as accepted. A massive 7,26,660 were rejected outright.Also read: 100 Former Civil Servants Urge Election Commission to Scrap the SIRMeanwhile, the commission received 6,39,049 Form 7 applications in West Bengal. Of these, 5,72,330 had resulted in the electoral roll being updated, while only 14,506 were rejected. Thus, 5,86,836 Form 7 applications, or 91.83%, had reached a completed outcome. Of those, 97.53% resulted in exclusion. The requested deletion had already been carried into the electoral roll in 89.56% of all Form 7 cases. Hence, a Form 7 application was 2.19 times as likely as a Form 6 application to have reached a completed outcome.The same analysis pointed out that data does not show a massive concentration of Form 7 deletions in Muslim majority seats in West Bengal. Instead, the more Muslim-populated constituencies saw significantly slower Form 6 disposal rates and far fewer completed additions. Completed additions fell from 9.89 per 1,000 electors in low minority areas to just 7.14 in constituencies where minorities made up at least 60% of the population. The state simply stopped processing their paperwork.For our full coverage on the SIR and the issues it has brought to citizens, click here.