BJP candidate held on charge of damaging EVM
The New Indian Express|May 27, 2024
Cops say Prasanta Kumar kicked the table on which EVM was kept, manhandled staff

POLICE have arrested BJP leader and party's MLA candidate from Khurda Assembly segment Prasanta Kumar Jagadev for allegedly damaging an electronic voting machine (EVM) and manhandling polling officers at a booth in Bolagarh under Bhubaneswar parliamentary constituency during voting on Saturday.

ADG Law and Order Sanjay Kumar, said Jagadev was booked under various sections of IPC, Representation of People Act and Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act.

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