Lucknow: Actress Priyanka Chopra's name was struck off the electoral rolls in Bareilly on Wednesday, 17 years after she left the Uttar Pradesh town along with her parents.

The deletion of Priyanka's name and that of her mother Madhu from the town, where the family still has a home, followed an inquiry based on the complaint of a resident, district magistrate R. Vikram Singh said.

The compliant, filed ahead of civic elections in Uttar Pradesh later this month, said the rolls still had the names of many who had left the town years ago and expressed apprehension that this could lead to fake voting in the polls.

"They (the Chopras) had left 17 years ago and now live in Mumbai. A local had pointed out this clerical mistake to us. So on Wednesday, their names were finally dropped from the rolls," said Singh.

Abhijit Mukherjee, the assistant electoral officer, said Priyanka and Madhu were voters in Mumbai for many years now. "The block electoral officer held an inquiry and reported that Priyanka Chopra and Madhu Chopra were listed as voters in Mumbai many years ago. They had left Bareilly in 2000." Poll rules do not allow a person to be listed as a voter in two places at the same time.

Mukherjee said Priyanka's father, the late Col. Ashok Chopra, had informed the district administration through a letter in 2012 that they were no longer a resident of Bareilly, 300km from Lucknow. Singh, the district magistrate, said one of the points in the probe was why the names were not removed from the rolls at that time.

Priyanka - a Miss World winner in 2000 - had lived along with her parents in the family house near Bareilly City railway station. The house remains mostly locked now, with neighbours saying someone from the Chopras' extended family occasionally visits the place and gets labourers to clean it. The house was repaired three years ago.

Priyanka was listed as a voter in Ward No. 56 at serial No. 234 at the Junior High School, Jasauli booth, for the upcoming civic polls. Madhu's name was just before her daughter's.

The resident who had filed the complaint lives in the same ward, officials said. The complaint was filed days after the polls were announced late last month. The elections are to be held in three phases on November 22, 26 and 29. Bareilly will vote in the last phase.