Ballot boxes were looted at gunpoint on Monday by unidentified people at polling booths in West Bengal's Murshidabad where the Panchayat Election is just done.


The ongoing Panchayat Election saw huge-scale clashes between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Trinamool Congress workers, resulting in the death of one.

Clashes also broke out between TMC and Congress supporters in Murshidabad.

"BJP agent was trying to run away with the ballot box, while officers caught hold of him but people said to let him go. I just drove people away using my hand, that's all," State Minister Rabindra Nath Ghosh told ANI, who was caught on camera slapping a BJP supporter.

On a related note, the voting, which began at 7 a.m. on Monday morning, will continue till 5 p.m. in 621 Zilla Parishads, 6157 panchayat samitis, and 31,827 gram panchayats.

The counting will take place on May 17. -- ANI