One person was injured on Saturday when security personnel opened fire on a group of men who tried to snatch weapons from them in Gumla's Sisai constituency, where polling is under way in the second phase of Assembly elections in Jharkhand.
Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Murari Lal Meena said that personnel of the Rapid Action Force (RAF) had to open fire on the men, after they attempted to grab hold of their weapons near booth number 36 in Sisai constituency.
The injured person has been admitted to hospital and his condition is stated to be out of danger, said Meena, who is also the nodal officer for the Assembly election security measures.
The ADGP said polling is continuing peacefully and there is no other report of any untoward incident from anywhere else.
Sisai is among the 20 Assembly constituencies to go to polls in the second of the five-phase elections.
By 9am, the voter turnout in the second phase of the Jharkhand elections was 12.35 per cent. Polling in 18 of the 20 seats will end at 3pm, while voters in Jamshedpur (East) and Jamshedpur (West) can exercise their franchise till 5pm.
In Jamshedpur (East), Chief Minister Raghubar Das of the BJP is in the fray and is being challenged by a former BJP colleague and minister Saryu Roy.
A total 48,25,038 voters, including 23,93,437 female and 90 third gender voters, are eligible to vote to decide the fate of 260 candidates, including 29 women nominees and 73 independents.
According to police sources, more than 42,000 security personnel, including Central forces, have been deployed in the 20 seats spread across seven districts.
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"Several of the constituencies going for this phase of polling are Naxal-affected. So, armed police have been deployed as a part of security measures," Jharkhand Chief Electoral Officer Vinay Kumar Choubey said.
Out of a total of 6,066 polling stations, 949 have been declared 'critical' and 762 'sensitive' in Naxal-affected areas, he said.
