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Officials on alert as paid news haunts Chhattisgarh local body polls

Authorities receive several complaints in just 4 days; in Raipur alone, notices served to six candidates for suspected paid news

Women voters show their fingers marked with indelible ink after casting vote during the first phase of the general elections, at Umpher in Ri-Bhoi district
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R Krishna Das Raipur
Paid news is emerging as a big challenge for the authorities in the local body election in Chhattisgarh.

The state goes to the polls on December 21 and the counting of votes will take place on December 24. The election will be held for 10 municipal corporations, 39 municipalities and 103 Nagar panchayats besides 2,840 wards. The campaign picked up after the withdrawal of names on December 9.

Authorities have received a number of complaints about paid news in a span of just four days. “In the limits of Raipur district