Sharlette couldn’t vote on April 23 as her vote was already cast by someone else. This led to repoll at booth number 19 on May 19.

Country-made bomb was hurled in the early hours of Monday at the house of K.J. Sharlette of Pilathara who had been in the news since the disclosure of webcasting footage showing her returning from booth number 19 at the Pilathara UP School on April 23 without registering her vote as it was found to have been cast by someone else.

The house of the Congress' booth agent V.T. Padmanabhan at Pilathara also came under bomb attack at around midnight after the repoll. Windowpanes were shattered in the explosion. The booth was one of the four polling booths in the Kasaragod Lok Sabha constituency where repoll was ordered following the finding that bogus votes were cast on April 23.

Ms. Sharlette, who had drawn media attention when she came to the same booth during the repoll on May 19 to cast her vote. Communist Party of India (Marxist) workers had objected when media persons spoke to her after she cast her vote.

District Congress president Satheeshan Pacheni alleged that CPI(M) workers were behind the attack. Alleging that the CPI(M) had turned bomb-making into a cottage industry here, he said that the bomb attacks exposed the CPI(M)'s frustration over its inability to cast bogus votes during the repoll on Sunday. He also visited the houses.