Over 60 BLOs booked in Noida, 3 suspended in Bahraich over negligence
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Noida/ Uttar Pradesh: Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich district administration has first information reports filed against more than 60 booth-level officers and seven supervisors for allegedly failing to comply with orders regarding the revision of voter rolls in the state.
The authorities have reportedly withheld salaries of 42 personnel alongside suspending a village-level revenue officer for alleged negligence.
The FIRs are filed just as in Uttar Pradesh alongside 12 other states and Union Territories the Election Commission started SIR exercise on November 4, Scroll reported.
Two booth-level officers, working in the Matera and Balha Assembly segments, were suspended by the district administration on Friday.
Primary school teachers and anganwadi or health care workers are usually deployed by state government to distribute and collect enumeration forms.
Booth Level Officers check identifies of new voters going from door-to-door alongside collecting details of the deceased and those moved to new area.
The FIRs filed in Noida, under the 1950 Representation of the People Act, alleged that the BLOs ‘did not report to their assigned areas’ alongside failed to comply with ‘orders issued by senior officials’, according to The Indian Express.
Four FIRs were filed on orders from District Magistrate Medha Rupam, who is also the district election officer for Noida.
Two cases filed in Dadri charged 12 anganwadi workers and government school teachers alongside others appointed as supervisors.
An FIR was registered in Greater Noida’s Ecotech Phase 1 police station against 33 booth-level officers and one supervisor, with seven BLOs having booked in Jewar.
In Bahraich two BLOs— Shama Nafees, a primary school headmistress, and Anurag, an assistant teacher—were suspended for failing to report for duty despite reminders by officials.
Another person to be booked in the district is Abhishek Singh following a complaint by a BJP leader alleging that Singh used offensive language in a phone conversation regarding distribution of revision forms.