In Telangana, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation and Hyderabad District Election Officer (DEO) D. Ronald Rose has cracked the whip against the staff who abstained from training sessions despite being deployed as polling officers for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Criminal cases have been slapped against 30 government employees. Most of them are from the School Education Department, who were absent from the training sessions. Others include Assistant Professor rank employees of Osmania University and affiliated colleges, while a few are from the Commercial Tax Department and Telangana Minorities Residential Educational Institutions Society. 

 

 

 

 

 

Earlier too, cases were slapped under the Representation of the People Act, 1951, against 10 employees who were deployed as polling personnel, but had not attended the training session. The DEO informed that the employees had reported for election duty after receiving the FIR copies.

 

 

 

 

 

The DEO attributed the severe action to the huge shortfall in the required number of staff to conduct the polling.