Stray incidents of clashes mar GP polls in Yavatmal

Yavatmal: Barring stray incidents of group clashes at a few places, voting to elect members of 925 gram panchayats in 16 tehsils of the district was largely peaceful on Friday.
As per preliminary estimates, 62.5% voters exercised their franchise till 3.30pm.
An incident of ‘liquor for votes’ came to fore at Savana village under Mahagaon police station where the cops have registered an FIR against one of the candidates, who distributed liquor to woo the voters.
In Adegaon under Mukutban police station, the cops raided a farm house from where they seized a big haul of country liquor intended to be distributed among the voters. At Sheval Pimpri village, supporters of candidates clashed leading to the police resorting to a mild cane charge.
One 101-year-old Sakhubai Jamkar of Hiwara (Sangam) village under Mahagaon tehsil was taken to the polling station in a wheelchair where she cast her vote.
The district has total 12,29,847 eligible voters — 5,90,702 women and 6,39,137 men. Besides, eight eunuchs were also enlisted for voting.