DM orders FIR against 13 officers for not doing poll training

Gautam Buddha Nagar District Magistrate today ordered filing of FIR against 13 officers of various departments for not attending a poll duty training camp here, official sources said.

These officers had been deputed for polls to urban local bodies, they said.

On the first day of the training camp on Wednesday, 42 such personnel had not turned up and had been asked to attend the training today at the collectorate.

Still 13 of them remained absent today, they said adding that the District Magistrate ordered filing of FIR against them under election laws.

Five of them are Noida Authority employees, four Greater Noida Authority employees, 2 from commercial tax department and one each from labour department and pollution control board.

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