A probe was ordered into dumping of hundreds of voters' identity cards near a fuel filling station at Gop traffic junction on Paradip-Daitary Expressway on the outskirts of Kendrapara town.
Chance-discovery of nationality identity proof cards was made when labourers were digging earth for the laying of sewerage line, said officials today.
Locals handed over the cards to the District Collector. The administration has taken serious view of it. The Sub Collector, who is also officiating as the district electoral roll officer, has been asked to ascertain the genuineness of the cards. The cards, however, contain all the details with the picture of the cardholders, said Kendrapara Collector Muralidhar Mallick.
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Officials said the voters' I-cards were stated to have been issued between 1994 and 2001 as mentioned in the I-cards.
The names of the cardholders are being cross-checked from the voters lists of the said period. If required, the persons whose names figured in the cards would be questioned for ascertaining the genuineness of the I-cards.
Later the I-cards would be sent for verification by experts, officials added.
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