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Gorakhpur: After supporters of two district panchayat member election candidates staged massive protests and set afire a police post alleging anomalies in counting, Gorakhpur district magistrate supervised booth-wise matching of votes and declared revised results and also ordered action against the returning officer.
On Wednesday afternoon, two candidates, Ravi Nishad from district panchayat ward number 60 and Kodai Nishad from ward number 61 had claimed they had won the election with over 2,000 votes but the certificate of victory was given to Gopal Yadav for ward number 60 and Ramesh aka Gabbar Yadav for ward number 61.
The candidates and their supporters alleged anomalies and staged protests that went on till late evening.
UP panchayat election results 2021 were declared on May 2 after counting of votes (Representational)
Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh:
An FIR or police case has been registered against a government official deputed as additional returning officer (ARO) in the Uttar Pradesh
panchayat elections for allegedly giving winning certificates to candidates who lost, an official said today.
Additional returning officer (ARO) Virendra Kumar has been booked for cheating, forgery and fraud on a complaint from Returning Officer Sunil Kumar, a senior police official said.
On Wednesday night, there were incident of arson in Nai Bazar police outpost by the supporters of the candidates who alleged that they was not declared winner due to fraud committed by the official.