UP Assembly Polls: From workers death to stone pelting to death of polling agent, know the violence that took place today

News Desk: A BJP worker was shot at near polling station in Uttar Pradesh’s Mainpuri. The accused who has been identified as a Samajwadi Party worker is under custody.

Reports of stone pelting on BJP candidate’s cavalcade in Barigon, Rasoolabad, Kanpur Dehat have emerged. Heavy police contingent rushed to the spot.

A polling officer was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Uttar Pradesh’s Auraiya. His body was recovered from Janispur near a small canal around 2pm.

He has been identified as Dinesh Kumar and was on the duty at Haloua in Dibiyapur.

Police are investigating the death.