>＞≻ Panchayat polls : beat officer arrested, 9 detained.
AGP ZPC candidate hilaluddin Barbhuiya filed a complaint with the Returning officer. Adil Khan also Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Hailakandi accusing the Beat officer, Abul Hussain Mazumder for electoral malpractice during counting of votes. Mazumder engaged as counting supervisor at Hall no 10 allegedly committed a serious electoral offence by mixing up AGP votes with that of all India United Democratic Front ( AIUDF), resulting in grave anomaly.
Ordering recounting on the basis of complaint, Khan detected that there was a quite a difference in the no of votes polled as 69 and the one recorded by the forester as 113. It also came to light that two of his relatives were contesting as AIUDF candidates from the same ZPC, a self declaration which he should have made as per election commission (EC ) guidelines.
Returning officer ordered the police for immediate arrest of the beat officer
Meanwhile, Sadar Police Station officer-in-charge, Surajit Chakraborty, informed that a case has been registered against him under representation of peoples act 1951 and various sections under IPC.
In yet another case, a dummy Agent was arrested for posing as a representative of an AGP candidate who was actually an independent candidate. On the other hand, husband of a contesting GPM candidate was handed over to the police as he entered the counting centre with his wife's entry pass with his photo pasted on it. While the husband spend the night on a police lock up, his wife emerged winner.
Similarly, nine persons were detained by a posse of security personnel guarding the government VMHS School counting centre for trying to intrude through bogus entry passes.
" The persons nabbed tried to infiltrate into the security cordon through scanned entry pass." Said an Assam Police Officer Manning one of the entry points.
>＞≻ Youth held with Ganza in Kamrup Exp.
While conducting routine checks, the government railway police (GRP) apprehended one youth and recovered around 12 grams of ganja, from a train at Guwahati Railway Station in Guwahati on Thursday. According to GRP, the 18 yr old boy is identified as Roke Mondal Alias Palash Kumar Mandal of Murshidabad of West Bengal district had boarded the Down Kamrup Express at Dimapur to deliver the Ganza at Murshidabad. " The youth was behaving abnormally and on suspicion, we apprehended him. The contraband was found from his possession, " said Hemanta Kumar Das, Superintendent of Railway Police, GRP. " A case has been registered under the nacrotic drugs and psychotropic Substances act, " added das
