Minor allowed inside ballot sales space in Maharashtra’s Solapur; SEC suspends polling officer, cop | Mumbai Information – The Instances of India

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MUMBAI: The Maharashtra State Election Fee (SEC) has ordered the suspension of a polling officer and a police constable in Solapur after a minor was allowed inside a polling sales space alongside along with his father, a candidate within the Zilla Parishad election. The motion follows a video that went viral on social media final week, displaying a 14-year-old boy accompanying his father and allegedly casting a vote on the Yashwant Nagar polling station in Akluj throughout the Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samiti elections held on February 7. Within the video, NCP (SP) candidate Arjun Sinh Mohite Patil’s son is seen standing beside him contained in the polling compartment and urgent the button on the EVM. In a letter addressed to the Solapur collector on February 10, the SEC stated permitting a toddler contained in the polling compartment amounted to a violation of election guidelines. In accordance with a preliminary inquiry report, the fee discovered negligence within the discharge of election duties by polling officer Anna Savata Budhe and police constable Gajanan Sitaram Rajut, who have been posted on the sales space. The SEC has directed the instant suspension of each officers and initiated departmental disciplinary proceedings in opposition to them. It has additionally instructed the district administration to submit an in depth compliance report on the earliest. The fee additional acknowledged that an FIR has been registered within the matter, naming Mohite-Patil, and requested the collector to supply a factual report on the standing of the case and subsequent motion taken.