This story is from October 29, 2020

Bihar assembly elections: 2 IEDs found in Aurangabad

Bihar assembly elections: 2 IEDs found in Aurangabad
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AURANGABAD/NAWADA/GAYA/BHAGALPUR: A major tragedy was averted during the first phase of polling when the police found and diffused IEDs planted by the Maoists at two places in Aurangabad district on Wednesday.
Police sources said the IEDs were kept to target the polling parties going to conduct elections. Incidentally, three CRPF personnel were killed in IED explosion at Baranda in the district in 2010.

The sources said information about one IED was received from Baranda Mor under Dhibra police station area during the area domination exercise. When they started searching the places, the IED was found planted on the road. The area was sealed and the IEDs were diffused.
The second IED was found near Anjan village under Madanpur police station area. Two fake IEDs were also found at Dalel Bigha and Premnagar Hasanbar Road under Madanpur police station. Aurangabad SDPO Anoop Kumar Sinha said the polling parties reached their destinations and elections were conducted peacefully.
At Nawada, the presence of paramilitary forces encouraged the voters to come out in large numbers in all five assembly segments, including in the Maoist-prone areas of Rajauli, Sirdalla and Govindpur. A BJP’s polling agent suffered stroke at Fulma, the native village of BJP MLA Anil Singh. At Gaya, no untoward incident was reported from anywhere as all the polling booths were manned by CRPF, CoBRA, ITBP, SSB and the district armed police personnel. In the sensitive areas, road opening parties comprising paramilitary forces were pressed into service to ensure the movement of security forces without any disturbance. Poll boycott owing to some local issues was reported from two to three places in the district.
At Bhagalpur, DIG Sujeet Kumar said polling was peaceful in all the seven constituencies.
(With inputs from Premendra Mishra, Shashi Bhushan Sinha, Alok Kumar & Kumar Rajesh)
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