Forty four people have been arrested in connection with poll-related violence in the second phase of the panchayat elections, a senior officer said here today.
"FIRs were lodged against 85 people at Kotwali police station late last evening for violence and loot of ballot boxes during the second phase of polls in Bewar and Kishni blocks of which 44 have been arrested," superintendent of police Upendra Kumar Agrawal said.
He said that Gangsters Act has been slapped against 35 people and efforts were being made to arrest others.
The second phase of the elections witnessed violence, loot of ballot boxes in Brewar and Kishni blocks.
