Three-tier security for strong room for 15 days: 200 personnel of paramilitary force and district police deployed
After the completion of the voting process for the Assembly elections 2023, the EVMs have now been kept in a strong room with a three-tier tight security cordon. All the EVMs brought from the polling booth of Bhopal assembly constituency have been kept in the premises of the old jail located in Arera Hills. The strong room is being closely monitored by 200 personnel of paramilitary force and district police as well as CCTV.
On the counting day, December 3, that is, for the next 15 days, the EVMs will remain under tight security in the strong room. In view of security, 200 personnel have been deployed inside and outside the strong room. Election observers and election officials are also continuously conducting surprise inspections to check the security arrangements. After the completion of the voting process, the process of keeping the EVMs in the strong room continued till late night on 17th November. On the morning of 18 November, the last truck full of EVMs also reached the strong room and the machines were kept safe.
No one is allowed in the strong room area. On December 3, all the EVMs will be opened in the counting center built in the old jail itself. After the counting of votes, the fate of all the candidates contesting on the seven assembly seats of the district will be decided.
Bhopal Police Commissioner Harinarayan Chari Mishra said that after the completion of the voting process for the assembly elections, the EVMs have been kept in the strong room under tight security. Security forces personnel are deployed in a three-tier security cordon outside the strong room. The security of the strong room is being handled by paramilitary personnel, two Gazetted officers and local battalion police personnel. There are 200 personnel deployed inside and outside a strong room who are providing round-the-clock duty for 8 hours each.
