Village head contestant booked for influencing voters in Baghpat: Police

A contestant for the village head submit has been booked alongside together with his 20 supporters in Baghpat on Wednesday for allegedly influencing voters and flouting Covid protocols, mentioned police. The panchayat elections are scheduled to start out from April 15.
The arrest was made after two movies went viral on Wednesday purportedly exhibiting Imran and his followers making laddoos by mixing khoya and powdered sugar (bura) with an earthmover and a spade, after which distributing them amongst villagers, they added.
An FIR has been lodged underneath IPC sections 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant ) and 171-E (punishment for bribery) towards Imran and 20 others at Baghpat’s Singhawali police station.
The two movies reportedly present Imran and others mixing khoya and bura and make ladoos. They first eat the laddoos earlier than providing them to the native villagers allegedly to garner assist for himself for the upcoming panchayat elections.
“After being informed about the viral video, we checked its authenticity before lodging the FIR against Imran and 20 others whose faces are clearly visible in the two videos. We will soon take action against the accused as they violated all norms to influence voters and also flouted the Covid regulations,” Ravi Ratan, in control of Singhawali police station, advised The Indian Express on the cellphone.