Puri: Some miscreants looted a ballot box from a polling booth in Chapamanik gram panchayat in Puri district during the first phase of the five-phased three-tier Panchayat elections in Odisha that was held on Wednesday.
Reportedly, at around 10.30 AM, a youth entered Booth No 9 at Kasijharia village in the GP and ran with the ballot box. He threw it over the boundary wall, from where his alleged associates picked the ballot box and all of them fled from the spot.
Following it, polling was stopped at the said booth and police have initiated a search to trace the whereabouts of the miscreants and the ballot box.
