1.32 Cr voters with dubious records in Bihar final list: Investigation
As many as 1.32 crore voters are still there in the Bihar electoral rolls released after Special Intensive Revision (SIR), Reporters’ Collective has found after investigation
New Delhi: As many as 1.32 crore voters are still there in the Bihar electoral rolls released after Special Intensive Revision (SIR), Reporters’ Collective has found after investigation.
“1.32 crore voters across the 243 assembly seats of Bihar continue to have dubious or fake addresses in these finalised voter rolls”, the Reporters’ Collective said.
Reporters’ Collective in its report titled “The Mess, called ECI’s Final Voter List for Bihar” has classified dubious and fake addresses as those where the Election Commission of India has registered more than 20 voters under the same address.
Duplicate Voters
The Reporters Collective in its finding also said it found more than 14.35 lakh suspect duplicate voters.
"These are the voters with two different IDs but same names, same name of a relative, and an age difference of 0-5 years.
"Of them about 3.42 lakh duplicates were the most alarming, where the ages on both voter IDs matched perfectly as well. Additionally, there were tens of thousands of cases where people across Bihar hold at least three EPIC IDs", the report said.
The Reporters’ Collective conducted this analysis in collaboration with a group of data analysts for all 243 assembly constituencies, followed by reporting in select constituencies to verify the data analysis.
Bihar SIR
The Reporters’ Collective published its report a week after the Poll Panel released on September 30, 2025 the Final Electoral Rolls of Bihar following the completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists.
The ECI had in August released the draft voter lists with deletion of around 65 lakh voters. The list had sparked a massive outrage and the matter went to the Supreme Court of India.
Based on the Final Electoral Rolls the Election Commission has announced to hold the 2025 Assembly Elections in Bihar in two phases in November.
6L Muslim Voters Deleted
A separate analysis, conducted by researchers Yogendra Yadav and Rahul Shastri for The Indian Express, further reveals that the revision process resulted in the deletion of around 80 lakh eligible voters and disproportionate removal of Muslims from the final list.
They further said that names of around 6 lakh Muslim voters and 16 lakh female voters have been deleted from the Final Bihar Electoral Rolls released after completion of SIR.
Yadav and Shastri in their report questioned the CEC Gyanesh Kumar who said, “The voters’ list in Bihar has been purified."
"We can't fully trust the final voter list released by the Election Commission", they said.
SC Directive to EC
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court of India has ordered the Election Commission to provide the complete details of 3.66 lakh voters deleted from the Final Electoral List by October 09, 2025.
The Supreme Court also asked the Poll Panel to clear the confusion about the 21.53 lakh voters added in the final list. The SC asked the EC to explain whether these voters are new or the one whose names were not included in the draft list released in August.
The SC also asked the Poll Panel to maintain transparency in the process.
The Supreme Court during earlier hearings had warned the Election Commission that the voter lists revision could be annulled if any illegality is detected.
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