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| | Security on alert for Palamu LS bypoll on Mar 29 |
 | | Ranchi, Mar 28: Security has been tightened and anti-land mine squads and sniffer dogs were engaged in sanitising vulnerable roads in naxal-dominated Palamu as an estimated 13.66 lakh voters are expected to decide the fate of 15 candidates in tomorrow's by-election to the Lok Sabha seat. |
 | | Besides, two helicopters were pressed into service for aerial survey, senior police official today said adding extra vigil would be kept at Garwah where 520 polling booths were identified as senstive of the 614 spread over the district. |
 | | EVMS will be used in all polling booths, as an estimated 13,66,000 electorate were eligible to exercise their franchise in the constituency, comprising two districts--Garwah and Palamu- spread over six Assembly segments-Daltonganj, Bhawnathpur, Chatarpur, Garwah, Hussainabad and Vishrampur. |
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