Abandoned, unheard: Women without papers victims of Bihar's voter revision

In Seemanchal, suspicion isn’t just a sentiment -- it’s infrastructure. The districts here, particularly Kishanganj, had been unofficially placed on alert. Villages were flagged, booths labelled “suspicious,” and Block Development Officers (BDOs) were quietly instructing BLOs on who to watch and who to list. The criteria? Simple, yet terrifying: "local intelligence" combined with an inability to trace one’s parents to the 2003 electoral rolls

Abandoned, unheard: Women without papers victims of Bihar's voter revision
In Seemanchal, suspicion isn’t just a sentiment -- it’s infrastructure. The districts here, particularly Kishanganj, had been unofficially placed on alert. Villages were flagged, booths labelled “suspicious,” and Block Development Officers (BDOs) were quietly instructing BLOs on who to watch and who to list. The criteria? Simple, yet terrifying: "local intelligence" combined with an inability to trace one’s parents to the 2003 electoral rolls