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Abstract : The effects of collisional processes in the hot QCD medium to thermal dilepton production from qq¯¯ annihilation in relativistic heavy-ion collisions have been investigated. The non-equilibrium corrections to the momentum distribution function have been estimated within the framework of ensemble-averaged diffusive Vlasov-Boltzmann equation, encoding the effects of collisional processes and turbulent chromo-fields in the medium. The contributions from the 2→2 elastic scattering processes have been quantified for the thermal dilepton production rate. It is seen that the collisional corrections enhance the equilibrium dilepton spectra at high pT and suppress at lower pT. A comparative study between collisional and anomalous contributions to the dilepton production rates has also been explored. The collisional contributions are seen to be marginal over that due to collisionless anomalous transport.