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Haryana Polls: Central Paramilitary to be deployed at sensitive locations

Giving this information on Saturday, additional director general of police (ADGP), law and order, Navdeep Singh Virk said that all the 3087 critical and vulnerable polling stations identified by civil and police administration will also have two-tier security arrangements for ensuring peaceful and incident-free polling.

Haryana Polls: Central Paramilitary to be deployed at sensitive locations

(SNS)

Haryana Police will deploy close to half of the Central Armed Police Forces allocated by Union ministry of home affairs in critical and vulnerable polling stations during the forthcoming Assembly polls in the state.

Giving this information on Saturday, additional director general of police (ADGP), law and order, Navdeep Singh Virk said that all the 3087 critical and vulnerable polling stations identified by civil and police administration will also have two-tier security arrangements for ensuring peaceful and incident-free polling.

Besides security cover by the state police force, the Central Armed Police Forces from different troops would be deployment on these polling booths to provide a safe and secure environment to the voters. They are conducting pre-poll area domination drives across the state.

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He said that as per the directives of the Election Commission of India, web-casting would be conducted on all critical and vulnerable polling stations to monitor the polling process across the state. In addition, the mirco-observer will also be appointed to monitor the election process and the conduct of polling staff.

Virk said that elaborate and comprehensive security arrangements would remain in place on the polling day across the state. In addition to 130 Central security companies, more than 57,000 personnel of State Police and Home Guards would be involved in ensuring the security of polling booths.

They will be supplemented by police personnel from trainees as well as Special Police Officers. The ADGP warned that any kind of violent activity during the entire electoral process would not be tolerated and police will take stringent action against those try to vitiate the law and order and disrupt the polling process in any manner.

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