Section 18
Power To Arrest
(1) The Returning Officer or Polling Officer or Monitoring Team may order any person whoever causes obstruction or attempts to or aids or abets to
cause obstruction to the polling or counting of votes or any other act of election to refrain from doing such act and to go out of that place.
(2) The Returning Officer, Polling Officer or Monitoring Team may order the concerned security personnel to arrest any person who commits any act
prohibited under Sections 3, 9, 10, 11, 12 or Section 14 and who does not carry out the order issued by the Returning Officer or Polling Officer or Monitoring Team
pursuant to sub-section (1).
(3) The security personnel shall carry out the order issued by the Returning Officer, Polling Officer or Monitoring Team pursuant to Sub-section (2).
(4) If the security personnel fails to carry out the order issued pursuant to sub-section (2), the Returning Officer, Polling Officer or Monitoring Team shall
write to the Commission for departmental action against such security personnel.
cause obstruction to the polling or counting of votes or any other act of election to refrain from doing such act and to go out of that place.
(2) The Returning Officer, Polling Officer or Monitoring Team may order the concerned security personnel to arrest any person who commits any act
prohibited under Sections 3, 9, 10, 11, 12 or Section 14 and who does not carry out the order issued by the Returning Officer or Polling Officer or Monitoring Team
pursuant to sub-section (1).
(3) The security personnel shall carry out the order issued by the Returning Officer, Polling Officer or Monitoring Team pursuant to Sub-section (2).
(4) If the security personnel fails to carry out the order issued pursuant to sub-section (2), the Returning Officer, Polling Officer or Monitoring Team shall
write to the Commission for departmental action against such security personnel.