This story is from November 4, 2021

Bihar: 2 cops hurt, convoy attacked in Gopalganj

At least a dozen persons were arrested after they attacked the convoy of Hathua SDO Rakesh Kumar and SDPO Naresh Kumar at Balbhadra Patti village under Uchkagaon police station area in Gopalganj during panchayat polling on Wednesday.
Bihar: 2 cops hurt, convoy attacked in Gopalganj
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PATNA: At least a dozen persons were arrested after they attacked the convoy of Hathua SDO Rakesh Kumar and SDPO Naresh Kumar at Balbhadra Patti village under Uchkagaon police station area in Gopalganj during panchayat polling on Wednesday.
The state election commission reported 61.07% voter turnout in the sixth phase of panchayat polls held in 57 blocks of 37 districts on Wednesday.

The SDPO said at least two police personnel were injured in the stone-pelting by the villagers. At least one vehicle in which police personnel were travelling was damaged, he said. The incident took place when they detained a person who was stopping villagers from casting votes at a polling station in the village.
“Manjhagarh BDO had complained about the voters being stopped at least 200 metres before the polling station,” he said. The SDPO said he along with the SDO reached there with additional force and detained the person. “A group of villagers consisting mostly women started pelting stones when we were leaving,” he said.
Meanwhile, 12 persons were arrested inVaishali for their alleged involvement in breaking five EVMs at booth number 147 of Bakhri Barai panchayat under Rajapakar police station area during polling. Mahua SDPO Poonam Kesri said two EVMs malfunctioned in the morning and were being replaced when the villagers barged inside the polling station and damaged five EMVs,” she said and added: "Fresh EVMs were installed and polling continued peacefully afterwards.”

In Sitamarhi, DM Sunil Kumar Yadav and SP Har Kishore Rai visited several booths in Belsand and Majorganj blocks. There are 9 panchayats and 122 polling booths in Belsand and eight panchayats under Majorganj.
Polling was peaceful in the Maoist affected Ramnagar block in West Chamapan. Ramnagar block has 18 panchayats.
In Darbhanga, election was conducted at 348 booths spread over 22 panchayats of Sadar block and at 167 booths in 12 panchayats of Hayaghat block. Women voters outnumbered their male counterparts in both the blocks.
(With inputs from S K Singh, Tirthraj Kushwaha and B K Jha)
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