A major voter fraud case has come to light in Aland assembly constituency, Karnataka, where nearly 6,000 voters were falsely deleted from rolls using forged Form 7 applications. The Returning Officer raised the first alarm in February 2023, leading to an FIR. The Special Investigation Team found that former BJP MLA Subhash Guttedar and his son Harshananda hired a private firm to target rival voters and remove their names. The fraud started with a Booth Level Officer (BLO) noticing a forged Form 7 asking for her brother's name to be deleted without his consent. Further checks found 40 forged forms in that village alone, all targeting Congress supporters. A complaint followed, and the Election Commission confirmed 5,994 out of 6,018 such petitions were forged. The CID took over the probe and used Internet and mobile data to link the forged Form 7s to a local operator named Mohammed Ashfaq. He confessed to working for Akram and Aslam Pasha, owners of a call-center-like firm contracted for making these forgeries at ₹80 each. The investigation recovered digital evidence tying the Pashas to the Guttedars. The Pasha brothers admitted they acted on instructions from BJP leaders and were paid for manipulating voter lists. They were caught destroying evidence, leading to further charges. The investigation also revealed loopholes in the National Voters’ Service Portal (NVSP), including lack of verification alerts and weak OTP controls. An online service 'otpbazar.online' was used to create fake mobile verifications, complicating the probe. Its operator was arrested in West Bengal, but some technical aspects remain unclear. The Election Commission has since updated the portal to require Aadhaar-linked e-sign verification to reduce fraud risks. Rahul Gandhi’s allegations of widespread vote theft in Karnataka find their most concrete example in this case, marking a first direct enforcement action against BJP-linked vote manipulation in the state.