CPI(M) panchayat member arrested for assaulting BLO during SIR in Kerala

The constabulary connected Friday arrested a Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] panchayat subordinate for allegedly assaulting a booth level serviceman (BLO) successful Kasaragod, Kerala.

The incidental took spot during a campy to capable enumeration forms arsenic portion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls astatine Payaradukka ward (Booth no. 78) connected Thursday.

A. Surendran, a CPI(M) section caput and subordinate of the Delampady panchayat’s 8th ward, was taken into custody by the Adhur constabulary based connected a ailment filed by LD clerk P. Ajith.

According to the complaint, the incidental occurred aft Mr. Ajith handed a elector verification signifier to a neighbour aft failing to conscionable the elector astatine his house, instructing the neighbour to walk it connected erstwhile the idiosyncratic returned.

Mr. Surendran allegedly objected to this during the camp, accusing the BLO of not giving the signifier straight to the voter. When questioned astir the objection, helium reportedly assaulted Mr. Ajith.

The constabulary registered a lawsuit nether Section 132 and 296(B) of the BNS based connected the ailment and took Mr. Surendran into custody.