The Election Commission ordered the transfer of Patna’s Superintendent of Police (Rural) and disciplinary action against three other officials Saturday following campaign violence in Bihar’s Mokama that resulted in the death of gangster-turned-politician Dular Chand Yadav.

The incident occurred Thursday in Mokama, which falls in Patna district but is located 100 km from the city. Yadav’s nephew Piyush Priyadarshi is contesting on a Jan Suraaj Party ticket from Mokama.

Friday, Yadav’s supporters pelted stones at the car of Rashtriya Janata Dal’s Mokama candidate Veena Devi.

“The Commission has further directed that Vikram Sihag, Superintendent of Police (Rural), Patna, may also be transferred. Hence, a panel of officers for posting a substitute in his place may be sent urgently,” the pol

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