Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: The head of a polling booth, a booth officer and a home guard were suspended on Sunday a day after Sena MLA Vilas Bhumre voted in the zilla parishad polls in the presence of his minor son in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar’s Paithan taluka. A video showed the fingers of both Bhumre and his son being marked with indelible ink. District collector Dilip Swami, also the poll returning officer, has ordered a probe. Two of those suspended are schoolteachers who were roped in for election duty. Downplaying the controversy, Paithan MLA Bhumre, said, “When my finger was being inked, my son too wanted it. He is small. How will he understand anything about EVMs and its buttons? He just came with me.” PTI
