At Rakkhaysin polling station miscreants attempted to

throw petrol bombs but the voters severely beat them up, police said. Huge groups of armed men and women in RHADC areas were attacking police stations and polling personnel. Miscreants attacked Boko Dekapara police station and also polling personnel before setting ablaze their vehicle driving away the polling personnel, the police said. Lalmati lower primary school where a voting centre was set up along with Hahim post office were torched gutting eight ballot boxes, the police said adding the miscreants also destroyed several ballot papers there. Ballot papers were set on fire also at Dorapar polling centre at Agia by miscreants, who also resorted to arson in many places, it said. Disturbances were reported at Khulakhati area of Hajo, Sambhar and Tokorapar lower primary schools voting centres in RHADC areas after some ballot papers were found to be faulty, the police said. In neighbouring Kamrup (Rural) district too large scale poll-related violence erupted and arson reported on the final phase of panchayat polls and 40 additional companies of security forces wre deployed in the RHADC areas falling in the twin districts. Meanwhile, the Joint Action Committee comprising a number of Rabha and Hasong organisations has called a 'Janata Curfew' from 7 am yesterday till 7 pm today. People remained indoors, shops and markets kept their shutters down, while offices, educational institutions and banks were closed as the day was declared a holiday on account of polling, official sources said. MORE