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| A YouTube screengrab of aba Shakeel and Farah Shakeel |
October 28, 2015, NewsCrunch
The Election Commission of India has issued a single voter identity card to Bihar 's famous conjoined twins Saba Shakeel and Farah Shakeel, in effect asking both of them to cast just one vote.
The card has also clubbed their names, and addresses them as "Saba Farah."
The EC's decision to issue just one voter id card to them seems to have flown out of a clerical error in the electoral roll that failed to list them as two separate individuals.
The electoral roll also enters their date of birth as January 1, 1990, while they were born on March 1, 1997.
The two sisters, who have just turned 18 are first time voters from Digha constituency.
They shot into fame when they won a favourable order from the Supreme Court asking the Bihar government to give them a monthly allowance of Rs 5,000.