Parsing pdf (Devanagari script) using PDFminer gives incorrect output

Question

I am trying to parse a pdf file containing a list of Indian voters, which is in Hindi (Devanagari script).

PDF displays all text correctly, but when I tried to dump this pdf file into text format using PDFminer, it outputs characters that are different from the original pdf characters

For example, the displayed / correct word सामान्य

But the output word सपमपनद

Now I want to know why this is happening and how to parse this type of PDF file

I also include an example pdf file -

http://164.100.180.82/Rollpdf/AC276/S24A276P001.pdf

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