communication to the District Collector and District Election Officer, Aurangabad shows that for preparation and finalization of voters list, the assistance was provided by a private entity, namely, J.M.K.Infotec. It is then stated that the petitioner had raised certain objection and that objection was forwarded to the private entity by way of online data entry process. It is further stated that the operator committed an error in the data entry and instead of taking steps in view of the objections of the petitioner, inadvertently, the entry against the petitioner was recorded as deleted. It is also submitted further that as large number of applications/objections were received by the office, by online process as well as by offline process and on the day when the entry was to be recorded, the command of the website was operating in a excessive slow pace. There were also certain technical problems in command. As this fact was brought to the notice of the Election Commission, the Election Commission as an immediate step closed the earlier system and made available new system with a command. Thus, it took some time in completing the process. Then the voters list was submitted for assessment scrutiny/micro scrutiny. It is further stated in the communication that while undertaking this exercise, the center level officer, one Smt Dudhe erred in verifying the voters list and without taking proper care and caution, the list was submitted for finalization. The another officer who was also working as Supervisor
