This is the final part of an investigative series tracing discrepancies in voter rolls. Read all of them here.

Three generations of Amjad’s family live in the dense cluster of houses known as Haveli Azam Khan in the Chandni Chowk constituency. The neighbourhood is walking distance from Delhi’s historic Jama Masjid and 23 members of the family are registered voters at polling booth 10. But during the Lok Sabha elections last year, Amjad discovered that he was among the 20 people from his family who had been struck off the voters list on the pretext that they had shifted residence. 

“This is the first time we faced this,” Amjad, 55, told Newslaundry. “But more frustrating about the deletion was learning about it on the polling day. When we first went to booth 10, they told us they could not find our name in the voters’ lists, so we should check another booth in Jama Masjid. From there, we were sent to another booth. Like this, we visited five to six booths. And then finally, the reason we were given was that probably during the house-to-house survey, the BLO (booth level officer) could not find us at our home so she struck off our names.” 

Amjad is among 36,815 voters who were deleted in 1,377 booths across the Lok Sabha constituency of Chandni Chowk. His assembly constituency – also called Chandni Chowk – saw the highest percentage of deleted voters as compared to nine other assemblies within the Lok Sabha seat. But Newslaundry found a certain pattern to these deletions in Chandni Chowk. And like two other Lok Sabha seats investigated by this series, many of these voter list revisions were in violation of the Election Commission’s norms.