Jind, October 14
Mange Ram Gupta, Congress candidate from Jind and education and transport minister in the outgoing Haryana cabinet, his two sons and two grandsons have been booked in connection with an incident that took place after polling last evening.

President of the Jind Municipal Council, a councillor and 50 others, all supporters of Gupta, have also been booked in another case of poll violence. This is, perhaps, the first time that a minister and a candidate of the ruling party have been booked in connection with the poll violence.

A complaint lodged at the city police station by Ganpat, a local resident, says Gupta his two sons Mahavir and Radhey Shyam, grandsons Amit and Gobind, friends Prakash Gupta and Sudhir Jindal and several others forced their way into his house in Gandhi Nagar and damaged his property and two vehicles. They also tried to set ablaze the house and threatened to kill him.

The complainant has said since his son Raju Lakhina was an office-bearer of the local office of the INLD, the incident could have been a fallout of the election process.

The second case is regarding the clash outside the polling booth at Hindu Kanya Mahavidyalya between supporters of Gupta and INLD candidate Hari Chand Midda which left DSP Jagbir Singh injured.

A case has been registered against Vinod Ashri, president of the local MC, Babli Sharmaa, councillar, Raghbir Bhardwaj, Suresh Garg, Sudhir Mahajan and 50 others for indulging in violence.

The complaint was lodged by Harbans Lal, a polling agent of the INLD candidate.