UP Elections 2017: 156 polling booths in district identified as sensitive

Muzaffarnagar: Over 150 polling booths in the district have been identified as sensitive and paramilitary forces will be deployed there to ensure free and fair assembly elections, a senior administrative official said on Tuesday.

District Magistrate D K Singh told reporters that 156 polling booths located in six assembly constituencies in the district have been identified as sensitive.

Twenty-seven of these booths are in Purqazi constituency, 26 in Bhudhan, 16 in Charthawal, 24 in Muzaffarnagar, 15 in Khatoli and 48 in Miranpur constituency in the district.

"District authorities have decided that paramilitary forces would be deployed in these booths," the DM said after attending a meeting with returning officers and senior police and administrative officers here.