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The Maharashtra State Election Commission (SEC) has ordered the suspension of a polling serviceman and a constabulary constable successful Solapur for allowing a insignificant lad to participate a polling booth with his father, a campaigner successful the Zilla Parishad election.
A video went viral connected societal media past week, which showed a 14-year-old boy, accompanied by his father, allegedly casting a ballot astatine the Yashwant Nagar polling presumption successful Akluj during the Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samiti elections connected February 7, 2026.
In the video, NCP (SP) campaigner Arjun Sinh Mohite Patil's lad is seen lasting adjacent to him wrong a polling booth, pressing the EVM button.
The SEC, successful a missive to the Solapur collector connected February 10, stated that permitting a kid wrong the polling compartment was a usurpation of predetermination rules.
Based connected a preliminary report, the canvass assemblage recovered negligence successful predetermination work by polling serviceman Anna Savata Budhe and constabulary constable Gajanan Sitaram Rajut, who were deployed astatine the booth.
The SEC has ordered the contiguous suspension of some officials and departmental disciplinary proceedings against them.
It has besides directed the territory medication to taxable a elaborate compliance study astatine the earliest.
The committee further stated that an FIR has been registered successful transportation with the incident, naming Mohite-Patil, and directed the collector to nonstop a factual study connected the presumption of the lawsuit and consequent action.
