Overview
- An FIR was lodged at Wagholi police station under BNS Sections 337 for forgery and 172 for personation at elections after six suspects were caught at the Jogeshwari Vidyalaya polling booth in Kesnand.
- Police say three of the accused had already cast votes using fake Aadhaar cards, while three others were found carrying bogus voting cards in the queue.
- Five men were arrested and a woman was detained, and officers identified the group as labourers based in the Kesnand–Wagholi area.
- During interrogation, the suspects allegedly admitted they were given money and counterfeit IDs by unidentified persons, and police are probing possible links to contesting candidates.
- In separate incidents across Pune district, at least nine people have been booked in bogus-voting cases during the Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samiti elections, including three named in Prayagdham, Haveli taluka.