Overview
- Videos showed piles of paper slips near SR/KSR College in the Sarairanjan segment two days after Phase 1 polling, prompting complaints and scrutiny.
- District Magistrate Roshan Kushwaha inspected the site, seized shredded and some unshredded slips, informed candidates, and confirmed an FIR has been filed.
- Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said the slips were generated during mandatory pre-poll mock tests and ordered the Sarairanjan ARO suspended for negligence.
- ECI officials reported a fresh VVPAT–EVM match with full reconciliation and cited CCTV indicating a sanitation worker inadvertently scattered the slips.
- The commission announced tighter disposal controls for mock-poll material and, in a separate action, suspended the Tarn Taran SSP in Punjab and shifted jurisdiction to Amritsar’s police.