According to officials privy to the developments, the probe was ordered on the direction of chief minister Siddaramaiah, following which chief secretary Vandita Sharma wrote a letter to the Karnataka chief electoral Officer on August 14, seeking a probe in the matter | Latest News India
Malleswaram MLA, C.N. Ashwath Narayan – also the BJP candidate for the constituency in the upcoming polls – has sent messages on WhatsApp to voters. These messages have details of their individual voter's ID cards.
Chilume voter data: investigation has found links between the IT minister of Karnataka and the company that masterminded the voter data theft scam in Bengaluru
The probe was initiated after an investigative report published by TNM and Pratidhvani exposed how a private trust named Chilume had carried out large-scale voter data theft in Bengaluru.