Assam EVM Row: An accident or a ‘BIG’ conspiracy? | Samvidhan Ki Shapath (Apr 2, 2021)

Hours after the Election Commission suspended four officials and ordered repolling at a polling station in southern Assam after an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) was found in a BJP candidate's wife's vehicle on Thursday evening, the poll panel on Friday suspended an armed escort official on the basis of the report submitted by the Special General Observer.

The EC said in a statement that following the receipt of the report from the Special General Observer, armed escort officer Luhit Gohain, a sub-inspector (armed branch) in the Third Assam Police Battalion, Titabor, has been suspended.

The Commission has directed repolling at Polling Station 149 in Indira M.V. School of Ratabari (SC) LAC, it said.