Rajesh Kumar Pandey
DUMKA: Police detained Wednesday the presiding officer of a polling booth in Madhupur assembly constituency of Jharkhand’s Deoghar based on a complaint about him allegedly influencing people to votes for JMM nominee Hafizul Hassan Ansari.
BJP’s Godda MP Nishikant Dubey filed the complaint with EC, which replaced the official based on CCTV footage. In a post on X, Dubey said the official was arrested. But Deoghar SP Ambar Lakra said he had only been detained till the completion of a probe.