Additional 500 CAPF companies deployed, total strength 1 lakh

WITH voting compressed to only two phases in the Bihar Assembly polls, the government has gone for massive mobilisation of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) to address the Election Commission’s security and logistic concerns.

- MUKESH RANJAN @New Delhi

Officials said, with requisitions received from the Election Commission, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has moved 500 additional companies of CAPFs leading to a total deployment of over one lakh personnel to ensure free and fair polls in the state, which will take place on November 6 and 11. They said that the deployment of all the troopers in Bi