Bihar In the matter of VVPAT slips being discovered on the roadside in Samastipur, the Election Commission has taken main motion and suspended the involved ARO for negligence. Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar assured the equity of the voting, saying the incident was solely associated to mock ballot slips and there was no influence on the integrity of the voting course of.
On the incident in Samastipur, the Chief Election Commissioner stated that the DM of Samastipur has been instructed to go to the spot and examine. Since these are VVPAT slips of the mock ballot, it has no influence on the integrity of the particular voting course of. The DM has additionally knowledgeable the candidates contesting the elections. However, the involved ARO is being suspended for negligence and an FIR is being registered.
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VVPAT slips had been mendacity in a pile of rubbish on the roadside in Gudma village of Sarayaranjan meeting constituency of Samastipur. According to sources, a senior Bihar Administrative Service officer (ARO) had briefly left the polling sales space after the mock voting and handed over the work to a junior officer, who unintentionally threw the slips outdoors the restricted space of 100 metres.
CCTV footage from 6.12am confirmed a sanitation employee sweeping, inadvertently scattering the slips.
District Magistrate Roshan Kumar stated, “Preliminary investigation has confirmed that these had been VVPAT slips of the obligatory mock ballot carried out at 5.30 am earlier than the beginning of polling.
As per the Election Commission’s protocol, mock polls are held in the presence of polling brokers to verify the performance of the EVM-VVPAT, after which the slips are destroyed below CCTV surveillance.
After investigation, the district administration confiscated all of the slips in the presence of candidates of various political events. FIR has additionally been registered in this matter.
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