Highest 72.7 pc voting in 8th phase for 15 seats in Jammu
‘Voting over in 140 seats except re-poll, counting on Dec 22
Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, Dec 19: Large scale violence, confined to Poonch district, broke out in the eighth and final phase of the District Development Council (DDC) elections held on 15 seats of Jammu region today in which more than two dozen persons including two candidates, one of them a woman, were injured prompting police to register six First Information Reports (FIRs) at Mendhar police station in which some contestants are also likely to be booked, even as the voting percentage touched all time high at 72.7 in all the phases.