West Bengal: Bombs hurled at polling booth in Pujali

Bombs were hurled at polling booth in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas’s Pujali and North Dinajpur’s Raiganj districts on Sunday as elections to seven municipalities in the state is currently underway.

In addition to this, an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) has also been damaged by a few unknown miscreants in ward number seven. The unknown miscreants also attacked a polling officer of the booth and vandalised the the polling booths. A heavy police force has been deployed at the site post the incident.

Earlier in the morning, the local police had arrested an armed person from the nearby polling booth. Several rounds of bullets were fired in different areas. As many as five persons have been injured in this regard.

The presiding officer of the booth said, “The EVMs have been damaged and are dysfunctional at the moment. The glasses of the building are shattered and the furniture have been blown away. A couple of people who were presiding the booth have been trapped inside and have not been able to come out yet.”

Joy Das, a voter of ward number seven said, “I was physically tortured and assaulted by political goons when I tried to cast my vote. They beat me black and …read more