CURATED BY – GAURAV SINGHAL | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Saharanpur | Deoband, the result of the by-election held for the post of area panchayat member which fell vacant after the death of BDC Shabnam wife of Faheem of ward number 99 of Thitki village of Deoband block was declared today after counting the votes. In which Arshi Naz won. The election officer handed over the certificate of victory to her. Let us tell you that in the by-election held on ward 99, Khushnuda, wife of current area panchayat member Abbas and Arshi Naz, wife of Munawwar were in the electoral fray. 37 percent of the voters cast their votes at four polling stations in the primary school of Thitki village. Today the votes were counted in the block office. In which Arshi Naz won by getting 475 votes while Khushnuda got 147 votes, 45 were cancelled. ADO Panchayat Anil Kumar said that out of 1768 voters in ward 99, 667 have voted. In the counting of ballot papers, Arshi Naaz got 475 votes and Khusnooda got 147 votes while 45 votes were cancelled. He said that Karan Singh has been elected unopposed to the post of area panchayat in Lakhnauti ward 63. Because during the scrutiny of nomination papers on July 24, no other candidate was found to have filled the form. Due to this, Karan Singh has been declared elected unopposed. The administration remained alert during the counting of votes. SDM Devband Ankur Verma, CO Devband Ashok Sisodia and Devband Kotwali in-charge Sanjeev Kumar remained in charge of the security arrangements.