A Mumbai police constable was lately booked for allegedly violating election confidentiality guidelines by sharing images of his postal poll paper.
The police constable, recognized as Ganesh Ashok Shinde, a member of the Native Arms Unit of the Mumbai Police, lately voted for the Ahsti Meeting Constituency in Beed via the postal voting system on the Malabar Hill facilitation centre.
The Election Fee (EC) has arrange seven such facilitation centres throughout Mumbai for presidency workers deputed on election responsibility. The centres are positioned in Dharavi, Sion-Koliwada, Sewri, Byculla, Mumbadevi, and Colaba, beside Malabar Hill.
An officer mentioned the breach of election confidentiality guidelines occurred between 9 am on November 14 and 5 pm on November 15.
“A video was broadly shared on social media exhibiting a authorities servant voting via the postal poll system. He photographed the postal poll paper after casting his vote and shared the picture with others, which later went viral.
“After conducting a confidential inquiry and reviewing the out there paperwork, it got here to mild that the postal poll paper… was issued to Ganesh Ashok Shinde,” the officer added.
When EC officers contacted Shinde over the cellphone, the constable initially denied taking the picture of the poll. Nonetheless, he later admitted to taking an image and sharing it together with his family in his hometown through WhatsApp.
“As a result of the worker breached the confidentiality of the election, each felony and administrative motion was beneficial in opposition to Shinde as per the Election Fee’s prescribed guidelines,” the officer additional mentioned.
The matter was subsequently reported to the Gamdevi Police Station, the place a case was registered underneath Part 223 (Disobedience to Order Promulgated by Public Servant) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Part 128 (Upkeep of Secrecy of Voting) of the Illustration of the Folks Act, 1951.
The 288-member Maharashtra Meeting will go to the polls in a single section on November 20, with the counting slated to be held on November 23.
