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Three including teachers arrested for photographing ballot paper
Nov 02, 201908:14 AM
Three including teachers arrested for photographing ballot paper

Three persons have been arrested for taking photographs of their postal voting ballot paper during the postal voting process, says Police Spokesman SSP Ruwan Gunasekara.

 

It is reported that two of the arrestees are teachers, while the other arrestee is employed as a watcher at an education office in Gampola. He was taken into custody at Kurunduwatte area in Gampola.

 

SSP Gunasekara also stated that 36 complaints pertaining to the presidential election were received by the Police as of yesterday (01).

 

The postal voting for Presidential Election 2019 took place yesterday and the day before at over 1,700 polling stations island-wide.

 

People’s Action for Free and Fair Election (PAFFREL) and the Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) said the first two days of the postal voting were largely peaceful despite several minor incidents on violation of election law.

 

 

 

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