Gujarat: Two BJP workers arrested for alleged bogus voting and live-streaming act on social media
A polling agent of the Congress claimed that he was assaulted and threatened by the two men.
The Gujarat Police on Wednesday arrested two Bharatiya Janata Party workers for allegedly casting bogus votes and live-streaming the act on social media, The Indian Express reported.
The two men, identified as 28-year-old Vijay Bhabhor and 38-year-old Manoj Magan, were arrested from the Dahod Lok Sabha constituency in Mahisagar district.
Jaydeepsinh Jadeja, the Mahisagar superintendent of police, said that the two men had been arrested under sections of the Representation of the People Act and the Indian Penal Code “for conducting bogus voting” at a polling station in Prathampura.
“The two are members of the BJP and Bhabhor’s father Ramesh Bhabhor is a former president of the Santrampur taluka panchayat,” Jadeja said. “The accused have been booked under IPC [Indian Penal Code] Sections 171 and 188.”
While Section 171 pertains to wearing garb or carrying a token used by a public servant with fraudulent intent, Section 188 deals with disobedience to order duly promulgated by a public servant.
In a video that was allegedly live-streamed on Bhabhor’s Facebook account, he can be seen entering a polling booth with another man and picking up an Electronic Voting Machine multiple times. He can also be heard dismissing the election officials’ warnings.
“Give us 10 minutes, we are sitting here…it [polling] has been going on since morning,” Bhabhor can...
