Top Commission officials, who met in New Delhi, took serious view of the incident and gave directions to the District Magistrate of Malda to take immediate stern action against the offenders.
In a recent meeting attended by Deputy EC Vinod Zutshi, poll officials from West Bengal had expressed fear of violence targeting them during the elections.
The EC had taken a serious note of their complaints and the issue had also come up during a meeting of Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath and other top EC officials with the state authorities in Kolkata last week, according to the sources.
