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As of 1 p.m. local time (0530 GMT), overall voter turnout stood at 39.13% across the nine states holding polls in this latest phase, according to figures from India's Electoral Commission cited by the ANI news agency.
Earlier today, reports emerged that members of the governing All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) allegedly blocked the vehicle of Agnimitra Paul, a candidate from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in the Medinipur constituency.
At a hearing on Friday, a vacation bench comprising Justices Dipankar Datta and S.C. Sharma took up an application filed by the NGO Association for Democratic Reforms.