Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], July 11 (ANI): Dehradun Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ajay Singh directed all local police stations to ensure a free and fair voting process, launching intensive district-wide checks to curb illegal inducements and maintain law and order in view of the Panchayat elections.

SSP Dehradun told ANI that in view of the current Panchayat elections, he has directed all the station in-charges of Dehradun to conduct the election process in a fair manner and to keep a vigilant eye on illegal activities by stopping all activities like giving any kind of inducement to vote in one's favor, on which the police is continuously running intensive checking campaigns in the entire district.

Earlier, the State Election Commission in Uttarakhand issued a notification regarding the conduct of panchayat elections in 12 districts of the state, except Haridwar.

The notification signed by Sushil Kumar, Uttarakhand State Election Commissioner, comes after the Nainital High Court on Friday permitted the continuation of the panchayat election process, lifting its earlier stay order issued on June 23.

According to the notification, the three-tier panchayat elections will be held in two phases in the state.

Voting under the first phase will take place on July 24, and voting under the second phase will take place on July 28. The counting of votes will be done on July 31.

The dates for filing nomination papers for the panchayat elections are set from July 2 to July 5. The scrutiny of the nomination papers will be carried out from July 7 to July 9. The dates for withdrawing nominations are set from July 10 to July 11.

In the same sequence, on Thursday, during checking by the Tyuni Police, a four-wheeler was checked and five boxes of dynamite weighing 125 kg were recovered from the vehicle, as per the police.

Dehradun Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ajay Singh said, 'A checking campaign was ordered across Uttarakhand-UP border. Under this, 3 people in a car were checked and we found 125 Kg of explosive material and 2 packets of detonator... They are residents of Himachal Pradesh. According to them, they were taking this for road construction purposes secretly... When inquired, it was known that they were about to use them at various places... The 3 have been arrested under relevant sections of BNS... Our teams have been deployed for verification of the information...'

When the necessary documents were sought from the persons in the vehicle regarding the transportation of the said explosive material, they could not show them, on which, on the recovery of illegal explosive material, FIR No 19/2025 Section 3/7 Explosives Act 1884 vs Rinku, Rohit, Sunil was registered at Police Station Tyuni. (ANI)