The sealed EVMs collected from 265 polling stations located across seven Assembly constituencies under Outer Manipur Parliamentary constituency, that went to poll on April 11, have been stored in a strong room under tight security at Mini Secretariat of Thoubal district.
According to official sources, the EVM machines were brought to the Thoubal district headquarters, 35 km south of Imphal safely on late Thursday evening, sources said.
Expressing her happiness at safe arrival of all polling/security personnel engaged in election duty in the seven Assembly constituencies with EVM machines, deputy commissioner Haobam Rosita of Thoubal, who is also the district election officer said, all had been put in place to ensure proper security of the EVM machines in the strong room.