29,000 forms seeking SIR deletions in Karnataka not available ECI portal

12 OCTOBER 2026

Details of nearly 29,000 Form 7 applications, submitted primarily to seek the deletion of names from electoral rolls, received in Karnataka until October 8, amid the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) process, have not been made public on the websites of the State’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) or the Election Commission of India (ECI).
This is despite communications from the CEO and the ECI that details of all Form 7 applications would be made available for public scrutiny.
A statement from the office of CEO V. Anbu Kumar on October 9 said 1,10,654 Form 7 applications had been received between June 16 when the pre-SIR rolls were frozen, and October 8.
Without details of these forms, it is unclear which constituencies they were filed in, by whom and against whom.
Details of only 81,822 Form 7 applications are available on the ECI website for that period.
As per the process, Form 7 applications received every day in each Assembly constituency should be consolidated into Form 10 — another ECI reporting format — and uploaded on the website.
An analysis of all Form 10 details on the portal revealed the gap.
Besides the missing forms, the CEO’s own press releases have reported contradictory and starkly different figures on Form 7 applications.