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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Union Home Ministry to provide two additional companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) for security at each polling station during the Tripura municipal elections.
The opposition Trinamool Congress and CPI(M) in the state told a bench of Justices DY Chandrachud, Justice Suryakant and Justice Vikram Nath that its candidates and supporters are reportedly not allowed to cast their votes since voting began in the morning and there was a law and order situation. serious violation.
The bench directed the DGP and Tripura Home Secretary to immediately review the security arrangements during the municipal elections and request the Home Ministry for additional CAPFs, if required.
There are 100 soldiers in each company of CAPF.
It directed the Tripura State Election Commissioner (SEC), DGP and Home Secretary to ensure that polling stations are manned by adequate CAPF personnel to ensure free and fair elections and that every polling officer can take the help of those personnel. , if there is an urgency.
The bench said that since the state government has submitted before the High Court that there is no coverage of CCTV cameras in polling stations, it is allowing uninterrupted access of print and electronic media during the civic polls.
It made it clear that the CAPF personnel would be guarding the ballot boxes till the counting of votes on November 28.
On November 23, the top court had dismissed the TMC’s plea to postpone the municipal elections in Tripura, saying it was an extreme recourse and last resort to do so in a democracy and asked the state police to ensure free and fair elections. Several instructions have been passed for ,
The top court was hearing a petition by the Trinamool Congress and the CPI(M)’s intervention application seeking a direction to the Tripura government and other officials to ensure free and fair elections in the civic body elections.
Voting began in the morning in 770 booths of Tripura civic polls and the counting of votes will take place on November 28.
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