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Section 53
Unauthorized occupation of polling station
: (1) Unauthorized occupation of the polling station shall be considered in any of the following cases:-
(a) If any person by force, intimidation or threat takes possession of the polling station and influences the counting of votes,
(b) If someone does not allow the election officer or employee engaged in the counting of votes to perform their duties by force or not, if they take away the ballot papers, ballot boxes, electronic devices used for voting or other materials related to the counting of votes in their charge or by doing other similar actions, the work of counting of votes is fair and If affected in such a way that it does not or cannot operate independently in a normal manner,
(c) If any person involved in the counting of votes commits an act as per Clause (a) or (b), assists or gives permission to do such act.
(2) In case of unauthorized occupation of the counting place according to sub-section (1), the election officer shall immediately suspend the work of counting the votes and report the same to the Commission immediately.
(3) Upon receipt of the report as per sub-section (2), if the Commission deems it necessary to investigate the incident, the Commissioner or the monitoring team of the Commission may be appointed to conduct the investigation.
(4) On the basis of the report as per sub-section (2) or on the basis of the report of the commissioner or the monitoring team assigned to investigate as per sub-section (3), if the commission determines that the polling station has been occupied in an unauthorized manner as per sub-section (1), all the ballot papers of the polling station affected by such occupation shall be declared invalid and voting Will cancel.
(5) In the polling station where the polling has been canceled by the commission according to sub-section (4), the election officer shall immediately publish the notice in the polling station specifying the place, date and time of re-voting.
(a) If any person by force, intimidation or threat takes possession of the polling station and influences the counting of votes,
(b) If someone does not allow the election officer or employee engaged in the counting of votes to perform their duties by force or not, if they take away the ballot papers, ballot boxes, electronic devices used for voting or other materials related to the counting of votes in their charge or by doing other similar actions, the work of counting of votes is fair and If affected in such a way that it does not or cannot operate independently in a normal manner,
(c) If any person involved in the counting of votes commits an act as per Clause (a) or (b), assists or gives permission to do such act.
(2) In case of unauthorized occupation of the counting place according to sub-section (1), the election officer shall immediately suspend the work of counting the votes and report the same to the Commission immediately.
(3) Upon receipt of the report as per sub-section (2), if the Commission deems it necessary to investigate the incident, the Commissioner or the monitoring team of the Commission may be appointed to conduct the investigation.
(4) On the basis of the report as per sub-section (2) or on the basis of the report of the commissioner or the monitoring team assigned to investigate as per sub-section (3), if the commission determines that the polling station has been occupied in an unauthorized manner as per sub-section (1), all the ballot papers of the polling station affected by such occupation shall be declared invalid and voting Will cancel.
(5) In the polling station where the polling has been canceled by the commission according to sub-section (4), the election officer shall immediately publish the notice in the polling station specifying the place, date and time of re-voting.