Man arrested for hacking EC’s portal for issuing voter cards: Police

A 30-year-old man was arrested in Jharkhand’s Palamu district on Tuesday for allegedly hacking the Election Commission’s portal used for generating voter identity cards, police said.

Mukesh Kumar was arrested from Karso village in Chaonpur police station area on a complaint from the EC, they said.

He was interrogated by several officers, including Palamu’s Deputy Commissioner Shashi Ranjan, officials said.

A team of half dozen investigators, comprising police officers and civil officials, are probing the case, they added.

The arrested is suspected to be part of a network that has links in several districts of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, officials said.