The Election Commission has sought a report from the Bankura district administration on Trinamool Congress legislator Deepali Saha against whom a FIR has been filed on allegations of false voting during Wednesday's polls in West Bengal, an official said.
According to Amit Ray Chaudhury, officer on special duty in the chief electoral officer's office, as many as 10 people have been arrested in the matter and police is on the lookout for the others who are named in the first information report.
Saha, the legislator from Bankura's Sonamukhi, is reportedly absconding.
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