Deputy EC for enhanced security measures ahead of UP polls

MUZAFFARNAGAR: Deputy Election Commissioner Vijay Kumar Dev has directed the authorities in the western Uttar Pradesh districts to keep strict vigil and surveillance in order to thwart any untoward incident in the upcoming state Assembly polls

While addressing a meeting of senior police and administration officials of the region in Meerut yesterday, Dev asked the authorities in Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Saharanpur, Baghpat, Bulandshahr, Noida and Hapur to share a list of proclaimed offenders and history-sheeters with the Election Commission.

The directions were given keeping to prevent criminals indulging in any malpractices during the polls.

Special barriers would be put up at the state borders to check vehicles entering from neighbouring Delhi, Haryana and Uttarakhand. This will include barricading on the Delhi-Dehradun and the Panipat-Khatima highway.

Dev also asked the jail authorities to provide a list of gangsters lodged in their jails. In Muzzaffarnagar district jails, 478 criminals are lodged under the Gangster Act.