Bengal records overall turnout of 82.22 per cent

The Lok Sabha poll in West Bengal's 42 parliamentary constituencies has recorded an overall turnout of 82.22 per cent, higher than 81.41 per cent recorded in the 2009 Lok Sabha election.
Giving the information, Assistant CEO Amitjyoti Bhattacharya today said that yesterday's poll in 17 seats in the final phase of election recorded a turnout of 81.57 per cent.
The last phase poll in the state was held yesterday amid sporadic violence that left 25 persons injured, five of them seriously.
Three presiding officers were removed by the Election Commission for dereliction of duty. Of them, the presiding officer of a polling booth at Jibantala in Joynagar constituency was removed after a TMC worker Farak Mollah was seen giving proxy votes.

Mollah was arrested today and an FIR was lodged against the presiding officer for dereliction of duty.
FIRs were also lodged against two other removed presiding officers, one at Kamduni and the other at Chakdah, both in North 24-Parganas district, for negligence in duty, he said.