SRINAGAR: The Jammu & Kashmir State Election Commission ordered a re-poll in two district development council seats in north Kashmir because the elected female contestants were residents of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
In two separate orders, the State Election Authority of Jammu & Kashmir concluded that each contesting candidate in Drugmulla (Kupwara) and Hajin-A in Bandipora don’t have Indian citizenship and have provided incorrect information in Form 6, meant for their enrolment as voters.
The SEC order said the nominations secured by the two candidates to contest the election by making false declarations about their citizenship was illegal, improper, and liable for automatic rejection ab initio. It said the polling process undertaken in these segments had been totally vitiated.