India, Feb. 8 -- Two incidents of Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) lapses were reported at polling stations in Akluj and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar during voting for the Zilla Parishad elections on Saturday. In one case, a ZP candidate brought a child into the voting booth, where the minor allegedly pressed an EVM button. In another incident, an MLA was reported to have brought a child inside the polling station, where indelible ink was applied to the child's finger.

As per the election rules, only registered voters are permitted near the EVM.

In the first incident, a minor boy, accompanying his father-who is a candidate in the ZP polls-entered the voting booth at the Yashwantnagar polling station in Akluj and pressed the button on an EVM...