KANPUR: Show cause notices had been issued against Congress candidate for Kidwai Nagar Assembly seat
Ajay Kapoor and booth incharge of a polling centre by the returning officer on Friday.
The returning officer took cognizance of a picture published in a newspaper on Friday. The Congress candidate had been depicted while casting his vote at booth number 18 in Nagar Mahapalika Gandhi Smarak Inter College. The returning officer said that they had violated the secrecy of polling and the act comes under the ambit of Section 128/131 of Peoples Representation Act 1951.
He asked them to explain within three days why an FIR be not registered against them.