New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Saturday issued a swift clarification regarding the discovery of VVPAT slips outside a polling station in Sariranjan of Bihar's Samastipur state assembly constituency, emphasising that the incident involved only mock poll slips and posed no threat to the electoral process, sources said.

"The integrity of the polling process remains fully uncompromised," EC sources said, quoting Kumar.

The sources said that the District Magistrate (DM) of Samastipur was immediately directed to visit the spot and conduct an on-ground inquiry.

"Our preliminary probe confirmed these were VVPAT slips from the mandatory mock poll conducted at 5.30 a.m. before actual voting commenced," District Magistrate Roshan Kumar said.

As per Election C

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