Summary:
more-inIn a joint operation, the Central Crime Branch (CCB) and the Peenya police busted a voter ID scam and arrested five persons on the charge of uploading voter IDs on the official Election Commission website. Naveen Kumar, 30, Sanjay Kumar, 29, N.
Sachin, 26, Devraj, 25 and Karisiddeshwara 34. The scam came to light when a few officials in-charge of the voter ID revised list noticed unauthorised and illegal entries and filed a complaint with the cyber crime police. According to the police, the accused got hold of the user id and password of officials, who were part of the enrolment drive and took anywhere between ?500 to ? 1,000 from people wanting a voter id. Of them, Naveen and Sanjay are computer operators working in the tahsildar office in North Division on contract basis..