<p>The Election Commission has acted against Inder Vikram Singh, District Magistrate of Shamli in Uttar Pradesh, for the lapses he committed while acting as Returning Officer during the by-poll in the State’s Kairana parliamentary constituency in May this year.</p>.<p>The EC ordered that Inder Vikram Singh should not be engaged in any election-related works for a year. The commission also warned him for his lapses when he was the Returning Officer for the bye-election to the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/bypolls-loss-bjp-go-major-rejig-674593.html" target="_blank">Kairana Lok Sabha seat</a>.</p>.<p>Tabassum Hasan of the Rashtriya Lok Dal had defeated the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Mriganka Singh in the fiercely contested bye-election by a margin of about 44000 votes. The results, however, had not been declared for hours. Singh had overseen the bye-election as the Returning Officer.</p>.<p>Hasan, who had also been supported by the Congress, Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party, had been declared winner only after a recounting of votes. </p>.<p>Several Electronic Voting Machines and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail devices had also malfunctioned during the polling for the bye-election in Kairana.<br /><br />Soon after the EC’s order against Singh, the Uttar Pradesh Government also removed him from the office of the District Magistrate of Shamli.</p>
<p>The Election Commission has acted against Inder Vikram Singh, District Magistrate of Shamli in Uttar Pradesh, for the lapses he committed while acting as Returning Officer during the by-poll in the State’s Kairana parliamentary constituency in May this year.</p>.<p>The EC ordered that Inder Vikram Singh should not be engaged in any election-related works for a year. The commission also warned him for his lapses when he was the Returning Officer for the bye-election to the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/bypolls-loss-bjp-go-major-rejig-674593.html" target="_blank">Kairana Lok Sabha seat</a>.</p>.<p>Tabassum Hasan of the Rashtriya Lok Dal had defeated the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Mriganka Singh in the fiercely contested bye-election by a margin of about 44000 votes. The results, however, had not been declared for hours. Singh had overseen the bye-election as the Returning Officer.</p>.<p>Hasan, who had also been supported by the Congress, Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party, had been declared winner only after a recounting of votes. </p>.<p>Several Electronic Voting Machines and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail devices had also malfunctioned during the polling for the bye-election in Kairana.<br /><br />Soon after the EC’s order against Singh, the Uttar Pradesh Government also removed him from the office of the District Magistrate of Shamli.</p>
