{"id":211338,"date":"2023-02-19T02:04:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T20:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=211338"},"modified":"2023-02-19T02:04:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T20:34:54","slug":"man-arrested-for-sharing-video-of-rigged-evm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/02\/19\/man-arrested-for-sharing-video-of-rigged-evm\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for sharing video of &#8216;rigged&#8217; EVM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SHILLONG, 18 Feb:<\/strong> A man was arrested in Meghalaya&#8217;s West Garo Hills district for allegedly sharing a video on social media which purportedly showed that any button pressed on an EVM leads to a vote in favour of the BJP, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) FR Kharkongor said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The man, identified as Bolong R Sangma, had on 16 February shared the clip, alleging that the EVMs were manipulated, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sangma was arrested after the returning officer of Rongjeng assembly constituency filed a police complaint, he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A case has been registered against him under Section 171 G of the IPC, which deals with false statements in connection with an election, Kharkongor said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">EVMs or electronic voting machines are tamper-proof and go to factory reset mode if any manipulation is attempted, he said, adding that numerous safeguards are present at every level. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHILLONG, 18 Feb: A man was arrested in Meghalaya&#8217;s West Garo Hills district for allegedly sharing a video on social media which purportedly showed that any button pressed on an EVM leads to a vote in favour of the BJP, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) FR Kharkongor said on Saturday. The man, identified as Bolong R [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-211338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}