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Good turnout in naxal-hit areas: police

Special Correspondent

13 persons arrested under the Arms Act
Counting to be taken up on Sunday

Bangalore: Director-General and Inspector-General of Police K.R. Srinivasan has said that people have shown a lot of interest in the elections and nearly 65 to 70 per cent polling has been recorded even in the naxal-affected areas of Narasimharaja Pura, Koppa and Chitradurga.

Addressing presspersons, he said that 13 persons, including Congress candidate for the Mysore City Corporation P. Siddaraju, were arrested under the Arms Act. No major election-related incidents have been reported, elsewhere.

In a case of negligence on the part of the official in charge of printing of ballot papers in Bellary Mahanagara Palike, the symbol of Communist Party of India candidate Ismail in eight booths of ward No. 29 was wrongly printed.

In Haveri, the polling to ward No. 19 of the Haveri Town Municipal Council was countermanded owing to the death of Congress candidate Umesh Narayan Rao Amte. He died of heart attack on Thursday. The repoll will be conducted to the ward on October 28 in this ward and fresh notification was also issued.

Miscreants poured water into the ballot box in polling station no.18 of Srinivasapura Town Municipal Council in Kolar District and polling station No. 23 of ward no. 12 of Sindhanoor Town Municipal Council in Bagalkot district. In polling station No. 22 of ward no. 22 of Shahapur Town Municipal Council in Gulbarga district, the ballot box was thrown outside the booth. The ballot papers were strewn all around.

In Gulbarga City Corporation ward No 12 (polling station No. 68), the ballot papers were destroyed due to rains. Similarly, the ballot papers in polling station No. 125 of ward No. 35 of Bidar City Municipal Council were smudged as miscreants poured ink into the box. In Davangere’s ward No. 7 and polling station No. 63, the presiding officer had allowed voters to cast votes, which were already marked in the list of voters.

In polling station No.1, ward No.1 of Teradal Town Municipal Council in Raichur district, some people created confusion on the pretext that there was rigging. The poll in all these polling stations had been cancelled and repoll ordered to be held on Saturday between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. The counting will be taken up on September 30 all over the State, including for those stations for which re-poll has been ordered.

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