Delhi SIR: Public audit in two booths find over 100 voters wrongly marked absent, shifted, or dead

At least 100 voters from two polling booths in Delhi’s Okhla constituency were found to have been wrongly classified as absent, shifted, dead or duplicate (ASDD) during the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, a public audit covering 258 households over seven days found. 

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These voters, who said their names were wrongly missing from Delhi’s draft electoral roll, turned up for a Jan Sunwai, or public hearing, held in the Batla House area of the national capital on Sunday (October 18, 2026). The event was organised by civil society organisations such as Jan Sarokar, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), Voter Adhikar Manch, and the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW).

The hearing was intended for residents of G and K blocks, covering polling booths 61 and 65, but repeated announcements drew voters from other booths as well. More than 150 voters registered to present their cases before a panel comprising Supreme Court advocates Nayantara Roy and Sumita Hazarika and transparency activists Anjali Bhardwaj and Amrita Johri.

Okhla had more than 1.85 lakh voters in the draft roll published after the SIR enumeration phase, of which over 67,000 names were placed on the notice list and nearly 1.6 lakh appeared in the ASDD list. This constituency saw the second highest rate of deletions.

Decades-long residents affected

Among those who turned up were Faiyaz Ahmed, 74, a retired professor of mechanical engineering at Jamia Millia Islamia University. Despite living at the same address for more than five decades, Mr. Ahmed was marked “untraceable/absent”, while his wife, Anjum Ara, 62, was listed as “permanently shifted” in the ASDD list published on August 31.