LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh’s chief electoral officer says 10,470 corrections reached the Pilibhit voter roll after the final list went public. The local office holds no supporting records for them.

“No forms or records related to any of these entries could be found,” IAS Navdeep Rinwa said.

The state published the final roll after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) on April 10, 2026.

Between May 31 and August 29, a computer assistant at the constituency’s Voter Registration Centre entered 13,779 Form 8 applications, the district election officer’s inquiry found.

Form 8 covers shifting residence and correcting details in an existing entry. Officials approved 10,470 applications and rejected 3,309.

Rinwa said all 10,470 approved entries showed irregularities.

The chief electoral officer ordered legal action against two Electoral Registration Officers (EROs). The department also terminated the computer assistant’s services.

The two officers were Puranpur SDM Mayank Goswami and Amariya SDM Hemant Chaudhary. The computer operator was Anil Kumar. An FIR was registered against all three.

The reports do not establish whether anyone else entered the applications. They also do not record responses from the two officers.

Nor do they explain how the applications were approved without supporting forms. That remains the central question.

According to the reports, complaints prompted the inquiry. None mentions an internal check that flagged the entries.

Voters noticed that names shown against their EPIC numbers no longer matched the final roll.

Advocate Faizan Ali Khan wrote to the district administration on October 14. He said his name and his brother’s no longer appeared correctly.

The Samajwadi Party filed its own complaint on October 19.

The Congress alleged that thousands of Pilibhit Sadar records had changed while their EPIC and serial numbers remained the same.

A gap in the numbers

One party put the disputed records at 13,150. The official figure stands at 10,470.

Sabrang India reported that the two numbers came from different examinations.

The outlet urged investigators to check application records, software logs and approvals. These checks could help establish responsibility and correct the affected records.

The reports do not say whether investigators have examined those logs.

Rinwa has also ordered the district election officer to recheck every Form 6 addition and Form 7 deletion entered by the same assistant.

The BJP won the Pilibhit seat by 6,920 votes in 2022. The 10,470 irregular approvals exceed that margin.

Uttar Pradesh’s next assembly elections are due in 2027.

No report links the changes to any election outcome. The inquiry has not said who benefited.

Three questions remain open: who authorised each approval, whether the system logged the entries, and whether the recheck of additions and deletions uncovers more.