Bengal panchayat polls: Ballot boxes set on fire, filled with water, thrown into pond and some in ‘relay race’

A couple fled with ballot boxes and some threw them in the gutter, a few set fire to ballot papers and two emptied water bottles into near-full ballot chests inside a polling booth — people’s mandate was vandalised in every way possible in some booths among the 60,000-odd that went to rural polls in different parts of Bengal...