Patna, Nov. 8 -- The Election Commission (EC) on Saturday ordered an inquiry into the recovery of a large number of VVPAT slips from a garbage heap in Samastipur district of Bihar, assuring that the integrity of the election process remains unaffected.
The EC said in a release here that it has directed the District Magistrate of Samastipur, Roshan Kushwaha, to visit the site and conduct a detailed probe into the incident. The Commission confirmed that the recovered slips were from a mock poll conducted during the commissioning of EVMs and not from actual voting.
In the statement, the EC said the VVPAT slips recovered are from the mock poll and the integrity of the polling process remains uncompromised. The contesting candidates have been ...