Drive against anti-social elements starts in Tirunelveli district to ensure free and fair polls

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A canvass  reappraisal  gathering  was held precocious    successful  Tirunelveli district.

A canvass reappraisal gathering was held precocious successful Tirunelveli district. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

A gathering precocious chaired by Collector and District Electoral Officer R. Sukumar has vowed to guarantee creaseless and peaceful polling successful each 5 Assembly segments successful Tirunelveli territory during the upcoming Assembly elections.

Security arrangements are to beryllium stepped retired successful delicate polling stations and anti-social elements flushed retired good up of the election.

As the delicate polling stations person been categorised based connected the past polling pattern, elaborate information connected convulsive incidents took spot successful these places during section body, Assembly and Parliamentary elections, the troublemakers who triggered unit and his supporters progressive successful these aggression, their communal, governmental and fiscal backing, the fig of policemen deployed determination successful the past, the post-poll repercussions, if any, etc. has been prepared for each delicate polling station. The law-enforcers person been asked to travel intimately these troublemakers and instrumentality due enactment adjacent earlier the commencement of canvass process that would usually commence aft ceremonial predetermination notification by the Election Commission.

The Police Inspectors acrophobic person been instructed to intimately travel these unlawful individuals and instantly instrumentality due ineligible enactment against them if they are recovered to beryllium doing thing that would undermine instrumentality and bid successful their jurisdiction.

“There volition beryllium nary abstraction for troublemakers successful the district, particularly during elections. We are present to guarantee escaped and just elections with the progressive information of each voters. If they (troublemakers) privation to instrumentality portion successful the antiauthoritarian process, they request to abide by law. Else, they volition person to look consequences,” warns Dr. Sukumar.

In a abstracted gathering held precocious with elder gross and the constabulary officials, Tirunelveli Corporation Commissioner and Returning Officer of Palayamkottai Assembly constituency Monika Rana asked the law-enforcers to hole database of troublemakers from their jurisdiction.

The Inspectors of Police of Melapalayam, Palayamkottai, Perumalpuram and Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital constabulary stations were asked to hole broad information connected the troublemakers, their past history, their engagement successful anti-social activities successful Tirunelveli metropolis and different areas, the cases pending against them, their contiguous presumption – either down bars oregon enlarged connected bail, their nonstop determination if retired connected bail etc. The officers were besides asked to travel these anti-social elements and flush them retired of the constituency, if necessary.

The police, connected its part, has strengthened surveillance successful the check-posts connected the introduction points of Tirunelveli metropolis and the territory bordering with Thoothukudi, Tenkasi and Kanniyakumari districts. Apart from ensuring round-the-clock manning of these check-posts, CCTV cameras person been installed to place each conveyance entering oregon leaving the district.

Published - February 19, 2026 07:18 p.m. IST

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