CPI (ML) General Secretary Comrade Dipankar Bhattacharya said that during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, not a single Bangladeshi infiltrator has been found so far.
At the core of the fraud was the misuse of a government-issued ID (RC 8841), which can only be generated with a Food Officer’s authorisation. Insiders confirmed that biometric authentication was bypassed, enabling the rice to be illicitly withdrawn, repackaged by rice millers, and resold to the government, forming a fraudulent cycle that cost the state crores.
Shah's version of events has been backed by then Army chief General S Padmanabhan.
