With the deployment of adequate police force at each polling booth, the second phase of polling for the panchayat election in Dehradun district went off peacefully on Saturday. By 3 pm, 70 per cent polling in Kalsi block was recorded and 56 per cent polling in Sahaspur block in the district.
Dehradun District Magistrate Chandresh Kumar Yadav and Dehradun Senior Superintendent of Police Ajay Rautela inspected polling booths in Kalsi and Sahaspur during polling.
The SSP said that in the second phase of polling for Panchayat election, polling held in two blocks. Amid tight security, the polling began at 7 am at each polling booth and went off peacefully in the district. To prevent untoward incidents, security was beefed up around polling bound areas and police force was deployed at the polling booths based on the sensitiveness level. Not a single report of disturbance from any polling bound areas was reported by Saturday evening. Rautela said that to avoid untoward incident, one sub-inspector along with two Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) personnel was deployed at polling booths marked as ultra sensitive. Two PAC personnel were deployed at sensitive polling booths. One constable and one Home Guard or PRD jawan were deployed at each polling booth in the district. He said that he inspected and reviewed security in more than 60 polling centres on Saturday.
"In order to conduct second phase of panchayat election peacefully, two circle officers, 12 inspectors, 242 sub inspectors, 96 head constables, 1045 constables, 591 home guards, 93 PRD jawans and four companies of PAC were deployed in Kalsi and Sahaspur." he added.