Four members of a polling party at
Booth No 2 of Basti Kishan Singh village were injured after miscreants
walked into the booth and poured acid on the ballot boxes. The acid
spilled on poll officials Labh Singh, Harmanpreet Singh, Sarabjit Singh
and Santokh Singh. Varinder Pal Singh, SSP, said six persons came to the
booth with a milk container. The polling officer allowed them in,
thinking that they had brought tea for them. They poured the pot
containing acid onto the ballot boxes and fled.
The injured were taken to the local Civil Hospital. They were discharged after first-aid.
SSP
said the attackers have been identified as Baljinder Singh, Shamsher
Singh, Dilbag Singh, Satnam Singh, Karamjit Singh and Pratap Singh. They
had been booked along with 15 unidentified persons.
In
another incident in Mohrewala Village, the SHO on duty had to open into
the the air to prevent a group of youths from capturing a booth.
