EVM and VVPAT verification in Nanded showed no difference in vote tally, say authorities
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (PTI): The district administration in Maharashtra's Nanded verified 75 VVPAT machines with votes on EVMs and found no difference in the tally, an official said on Monday.
The counting and verification exercise was conducted on the Election Commission's instructions. The candidate-wise votes obtained on EVMs from five centres in each assembly constituency in the district were tallied with VVPATs, the official said.
Nanded District Collector Abhijit Raut said the counting of votes at 75 centres in the district, 30 Lok Sabha and 45 assembly, was flawless.
According to the authorities, the centres were selected by drawing lots in the presence of candidates' representatives and election observers. During the counting, slips from five VVPATs per assembly constituency area were counted physically and verified with votes from EVMs.
For the assembly elections, 45 polling stations (five each in nine constituencies of Nanded) and the Lok Sabha by-election, 30 polling stations, five each in six constituencies, were verified, they said in a press release.
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Irritated by baby's cry, man thrashes one-year-old stepdaughter to death in Kota
Kota (Rajasthan), Jan 21 (PTI): A man allegedly thrashed and choked his one-year-old stepdaughter to death in Kota on Monday night and fled from the spot on Tuesday morning, police said.
He was angry that the baby's cries were disturbing his sleep, they said.
When the baby did not get up on Tuesday morning, her mother took her to the hospital, where doctors declared her brought dead.
According to police, the deceased baby's mother had left her first husband and was living with accused Jittu, a daily wage labourer in the city. He frequently got irritated at her crying. The deceased baby bore marks of thrashing on her lips, cheeks and feet.
The mother alleged in the complaint that Jittu thrashed and choked her daughter to death on late Monday night, Circle Inspector at the Udhyog Nagar police station Jitendra Singh said.
Police have lodged a case of murder against the accused and efforts are underway to nab him, he added.
