NEW DELHI, May 13: After booking a case against her for trespassing into a polling station and checking the identity of the voters which is the duty of the polling officers, the Mangalhat police booked another case against the BJP candidate for the Hyderabad Lok Sabha seat K Madhavi Latha and some of her BJP followers for using dummy electronic voting machines (EVM) to manipulate voters in the locality.
Officials said they initially took two BJP workers into custody for manipulating the voters with fake EVMs. However, Madhavi Latha reached the police station and managed to free the men and also take away the seized dummy EVMs.
Goshamahal ACP K. Venkat Reddy said cases were booked against BJP workers Rakesh Goud and Bunny. “Later, Madhavi Latha was also booked for obstructing police and taking away the seized EVMs from the police custody,” said the official. Action would also be taken against the police officials of Mangalhat for allowing the seized fake EVMs to be taken away by the BJP activists, senior officials said.
Mangalhat comes under the Goshamahal Assembly segment and is considered a stronghold of BJP legislator T. Raja Singh.
(Manas Dasgupta)