(1) Any person who at any election fraudulently takes or attempts to take a ballot paper or ballot box out of polling station or willfully aids or abets the doing of any such act shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years and with fine which may extend upto five thousand rupees or with both.
Penalty for Government servants for acting as election agent, polling agent or counting agent.
Prohibition of going armed to or near a polling station.
Central Act 54 of 1959.
Removal of ballot papers or ballot boxes from polling stations to be an offence.
168 [Act No. 11 of 2019] Offences of booth capturing.
Liquor not to be sold, given or distributed on polling day.
(2) If the Presiding Officer of a polling station has reason to believe that any person is committing or has committed an offence punishable under sub-section (1), such officer may, before such person leaves the polling station, arrest or direct a police officer to arrest such person and such officer may cause him to be searched by the police:
Provided that when it is necessary to cause a woman to be searched, the search shall be made by another woman with strict regard to decency.
(3) Any ballot paper found upon the person arrested on search shall be made over for safe custody to a police officer by the Presiding Officer or when the search is made by a police officer, shall be kept by such officer in safe custody.