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Molitics India @moliticsindia is a habitual plagiarist. And shameful at that. It's the second time the handle has blatantly ripped off the hard work of my @reporters_co colleagues. I hear it has done so with others as well.
As a non-profit we keep our investigations free for citizens to read and rely on donations to carry out our work.
It's quite obnoxious how this influencing and consulting agency, pretending to be in news and media, spends crores every year only to plagiarise others' hard work.
Dump the plagiarist, read the OG investigation by my colleagues here: reporters-collective.in/trc/…
Images: The company behind the handle, its annual expenses, its directors, and its plagiarised insta report.
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An investigation by @reporters_co has found that 1.82 lakh people declared dead and deleted from Rajasthan’s electoral rolls by the ECI during the SIR are still listed as living, eligible voters in the state’s panchayat rolls, sparking outrage from opposition leaders, activists and journalists.
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Latest story by @reporters_co, around 2 lakh people declared dead in ECI's electoral roll found to be alive on Rajasthan's state election commission rolls.
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"The disparity between the two voter list revisions is more egregious because both the lists were revised in parallel"
Read this cracker story by @meherk___ @DikshyaKoirala7 and @nidamominn
ECI declared them dead. But nearly
2 lakh of these voters in Rajasthan wetter confirmed alive by the state commission for ongoing panchayat elections.
Investigation by my @reporters_co colleagues @meherk___, @DikshyaKoirala7 & @nidamominn
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2. Over the last 16 months, we have doggedly pursued the massive loopholes in the SIR exercise. It has been possible only because of your generous support. Please donate today.
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Nearly 2 lakh people declared dead in ECI’s SIR exercise in Rajasthan are found alive in the roll prepared by the State for ongoing panchayat elections.
Read full report by @meherk___, @DikshyaKoirala7 and @nidamominn
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2. My @reporters_co colleagues have been investigating the frauds in SIR and the dubious methods of SIR for over a year now. We have more to tell. Please fund to keep us going. Click the image below to donate 👇 reporters-collective.in/supp…
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The left hand has no idea what the right is doing.
Voters are dead on ECI list but alive on Rajasthan’s panchayat roll - my superb colleagues @meherk___
@DikshyaKoirala7 @nidamominn investigate for @reporters_co
Do read here 👇
Nearly 2 lakh people declared dead in ECI’s SIR exercise in Rajasthan are found alive in the roll prepared by the State for ongoing panchayat elections.
Read full report by @meherk___, @DikshyaKoirala7 and @nidamominn
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ECI declared them dead. But nearly
2 lakh of these voters in Rajasthan were confirmed alive by the state commission for ongoing panchayat elections.
Investigation by my @reporters_co colleagues @meherk___, @DikshyaKoirala7 & @nidamominn
reporters-collective.in/trc/…
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ECI declared them dead. But nearly
2 lakh of these voters in Rajasthan wetter confirmed alive by the state commission for ongoing panchayat elections.
Investigation by my @reporters_co colleagues @meherk___, @DikshyaKoirala7 & @nidamominn
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2. Also, Delhi Police wants @internetfreedom gone from X.
The crime? Talking about a legal notice sent in RSS's name, which demanded that IFF stop documenting the govt's social media censorship.
The group that tracks takedowns got a takedown request.
rti404.com
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Freedom, justice, liberty & fraternity: RTI ensures these principles stay alive.
The Act guarantees our right to hold the govt accountable. While it creatively dodges Qs, murals from RTI's birthplace are telling: We file RTIs, therefore we are citizens.
rti404.com/rti-101
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It took the CEO Delhi over 2 years to respond to a 2018 RTI about homeless voters.
Now, the ECI has deleted voters, whose houses in Delhi were bulldozed, during the SIR. So, which country do they belong to?
For more denials visit: rti404.com
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NDTV, Network18 & other 'legacy media' have finally woken up to how the govt's Privacy Act stands to impact journalism. Before them, @reporters_co had filed a petition in the Supreme Court. Why did it take the others so long?
Read: rti404.com/privacy-101
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We at The Reporters Collective @reporters_co, a tiny non-profit newsroom, stood up to defend journalism against govt attempt to paralyse the profession through a Trojan horse in the Privacy law. We filed a case before the Supreme Court in February 2026 and launchedwww.rti404.com, a watchdog project to protect RTI and journalism, both.
Months later the for- profit big media businesses have realised, not just journalism but revenue of their media business would be hurt too by what the govt is doing.
Personally, I am glad they have eventually seen value in joining us.
Read Our Statement from February 16, 2026. 👇
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EXCLUSIVE: India’s biggest news publishers including Ambani's Network18, Adani's NDTV, Indian Express, Times Internet & others mount the most high-profile challenge yet to Modi’s privacy law, warning it would “render investigative journalism a benign and neutered recorder of events.”
DNPA (@publishers_news) has taken the law to the Supreme Court. They argue it would trample investigative work and let New Delhi identify journalists’ sources.
The provisions “constitute pre-censorship which is anathema to any democracy worth its name,” the group’s 698-page filing says.
The key concerns:
🔹 Consent: requiring a journalist to notify the subject of an investigation and seek consent “would allow that subject to destroy evidence, intimidate witnesses”
🔹 Erasure: people can withdraw consent and demand their data be erased, which the group says could force publishers to unpublish or heavily redact news reports
🔹 Sources: a “nakedly unguided” power to demand information that “can extend to privileged communications in possession of a reporter or the informant”
In a letter to the government, the group said India “has chosen to grant broad exemptions to the state, while failing to extend any corresponding protection to the press.”
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Response to Claims by Chief Electoral Officer, Uttar Pradesh.
In several posts on X, the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of UP has made some claims after the publication of our four reports on the failures of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state.
On the first two stories:
1. The Mysterious 16.18 Lakh Voters Added to Uttar Pradesh’s Roll
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2. UP CEO Confirms: 16.18 Lakh Applications for Addition Accepted Before Draft Roll. Falsely Claims Details Were Hidden on ECI’s Instructions
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We stand by the assertions and facts in these two stories in their entirety.
In response to our first story, the UP CEO had confirmed that the details of 16.18 lakh applications for addition were not made public following the instructions of the ECI and the extant laws.
We then brought out these internal instructions of the ECI to prove that the ECI had in fact asked the CEOs of all states undergoing the SIR to put in public the details of all applications received for addition of voters. The ECI had not instructed the CEOs to accept such forms before the listed due date, nor to keep their details out of the public domain.
As evidence, we also made the relevant part of the ECI’s internal instructions public.
On the following two stories
1. In UP SIR, ECI Software Auto-generated 85,854 Forms to Delete Voters Without a Reason
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2. UP CEO Admits ECI Auto-generated 85,000+ Voter Deletion Forms Without a Reason, Confirms Mass Deletion Attempts Against Muslims
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The UP CEO claimed that officers were not forced to sign blank Form 7s, stating that “no digital signature was required to work in ECINET”.
TRC’s response: Working on ECINET requires an officer's personal login. Electoral registration officers (EROs) we interviewed confirmed that every Form 7 filed through that login automatically bears their signature and authorisation on record.
The UP CEO also claimed that all the auto-generated forms did not contain any reason for deletion of the voters. None contained alphabets such as, “A, N, H or E” or ‘absent/shifted”, as the reason.
TRC’s response: He is right. We stand corrected. None of the forms provided a reason for deletion. The total number of forms that were auto-generated and auto-signed without giving voters a written reason for deletion is 87,127, not 85,854.
We have revised this number of auto-generated deletion forms in UP upwards, from 85,854 to 87,127, in the headline and the body of the report.
The copy has been corrected for the two wrong claims in the original story: that 62 forms contained alphabets such as, “A, N, H or E” as the reason for deletion, and that 1,211 forms provided ‘absent/shifted” as the reason.
We continue to stand by our assertion that all these forms were auto-generated and auto-signed in violation of the regulations governing the updation of voter rolls.
Editors
The Reporters Collective
6.15 pm, October 20
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Despite much criticism, PM Narendra Modi’s govt brought cheetahs to India. Most of them died. But when a wildlife activist filed an RTI to know their cause of death, the govt was quick to cite “national security”.
Source: The Wire
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