EC says CISF firing was necessary to save lives of voters, bans political visit for 72 hrs
Kolkata, April 10: The Election Commission said on Saturday that the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel who shot at the Sitalkuchi assembly seat in Cooch Behar, West Bengal, was carried out to save the lives of aligned voters at the voting booth.
” The recourse to opening fire by CISF staff became absolutely necessary to save the lives of the voters lined up in the voting booth, those of other voting staff, and their own lives while the mob had tried to take their lives. weapons, ” the Electoral Commission said during a press release detailing the sequence of events that led to the dismissal.
The EC had previously requested a detailed report on the incident.
Four people were killed when central forces allegedly opened fire after being attacked by locals, who “tried to seize their rifles”, in the Cooch Behar district of West Bengal, police said.
The Electoral Commission ordered to stop the voting exercise at polling station number 126 in Sitalkuchi, where the incident occurred while the elections were in progress.
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