10 get 10-yr jail for poll violence in Nuh district

Chandigarh, January 25

A Nuh court has sentenced 10 persons to 10-year rigorous imprisonment for booth capturing, assaulting election and police officials and damaging EVMs.

They were also held guilty of inflicting grievous injuries on one of the sarpanch candidates, Parveen, who had sustained a fracture in his skull.

The incident took place on January 24, 2016, while polling for panchayat elections was on at Government Senior Secondary School, Indri. Parveen and Kamal were contesting for the post of sarpanch.

Those convicted are Parveen (not the candidate), Gulshan, Billu, Satish, Sachin, Deepak and another accused named Deepak, all residents of Indri; Anand and Jagdish of Aata village; and Mobinder of Samaypur village. They had forcibly entered the school, assaulted government officials and disrupted the polling.

The election had to be cancelled and was held on January 27, which Kamal won. The convicts were his supporters. They were also fined Rs 30,000 each. —