EC identifies 1088 vulnerable hamlets ahead of Punjab Assembly polls

The Punjab Chief Electoral Officer has said that as many as 1088 vulnerable hamlets have been identified in the state ahead of Assembly polls. He said that besides this, 2376 persons have been identified as probable sources of trouble. Mr. Raju said that out of these persons preventive action had already been initiated against 1129 persons while the remaining would also be brought to book. He also informed that from a security point of view 725 persons have been bound down under preventive sections of CrPC act.

He said that as many as 2221 cases of non-bailable warrants have been executed, while execution in 191 cases is under process.