Maharashtra Assembly polls: Forty booked for vandalising polling booths, EVMs during voting in Beed
The Hindu
40 persons vandalized polling booths in Maharashtra, injuring police and damaging EVMs during Assembly polls. Case registered.
“Police have registered a case against 40 persons after they allegedly vandalised three polling booths at Ghatnandur in Maharashtra’s Beed district and damaged some EVMs when voting for the Assembly polls was under way a day ago,” officials said.
“Some police personnel were injured in the attack by the accused who carried wooden sticks and sharp-edged weapons with them,” they said.
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“The case was registered at Ambajogai Rural police station, around 220 km from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, for the incidents that occurred at Ghatnandur in Parli Assembly constituency,” an official said. Polling for the 288-member State Legislative Assembly was held on Wednesday (November 20, 2024.)
"A video of Madhav Jadhav, a local leader of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), being beaten up at Kanherwadi village in the constituency had earlier gone viral. Following that, 50 to 60 persons came with wooden sticks and weapons, and vandalised the polling booths set up in Someshwar School, a Zilla Parishad (ZP) school and another ZP school for girls around 1.30 pm on Wednesday (November 20, 2024)," the official said.
“They also attacked some police personnel guarding the booths, in which they suffered injuries,” he said.
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