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In October 2025, as the Special Intensive Revision was raging across half the country, Union Home Minister Amit Shah first promised to 'detect, delete, and deport' infiltrators identified during the exercise.

Shah’s phrase fueled political rhetoric in West Bengal, where the BJP government followed suit and decided to remove voters deleted during SIR from welfare schemes, claiming no non-citizens should benefit from them.

Now that Rahul Gandhi is leading the charge against SIR, Amit Shah is quick to point fingers at him, and said the Leader of the Opposition was defending these “ghuspaithiyas” infiltrators.

But we investigated. Our Right to Information (RTI) applications and probe of the ECI’s software reveal that they have kept no record of infiltrators found during the exercise.

In fact, the Commission doctored the process to remove “non-Indian” as grounds to remove people from the voter lists.

You can read my story here: Amit Shah and ECI claim SIR Was to Catch ‘Infiltrators’. Commission Has no Record of Them

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Amit Shah said SIR was to catch ‘infiltrators’. We fact-checked him.

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