Sunil Karmakar, a resident of Ramnagar village of Murshidabad district of West Bengal, was in for a rude shock when he got his voter identification card. Karmakar had applied for some corrections to his card and when it was delivered to him, it had the picture of a dog instead of Karmakar!
He told India Today, “Yesterday I was called at Dulal Smriti School and this voter ID card was given to me. I saw the photo. The officer there signed and gave it to me but he didn’t see the photo. This is playing with my dignity. I will go to the BDO office and request that this should not happen again.”
Block Development Officer (BDO) Rajarshi Chakraborty said that the correct card will be issued to Karmakar soon. He said, “If there is a mistake, it’ll be corrected. As far as the dog’s photo is concerned, it might have been done by someone while filling online application. The photo has already been corrected. He’ll get the final ID card with the correct photo.”
This not the first time a government recognized identity document had been issued with the picture of an animal. In July 2015, a Madhya Pradesh man had managed to get an Aadhaar card for his dog Tommy Singh, son of Sheru Singh!