WATCH: Miscreants set police vehicle on fire in Murshidabad as Bengal voted for panchayat polls

A few unidentified miscreants set a police vehicle on fire in Bengal's Murshidabad district as the polling for West Bengal panchayat elections was underway in the Hariharpara village on Saturday (July 8). 

The incident took place in the evening outside the polling booth. As per information, at least 15 people were killed in election-related violence, so far. 

State Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Sukanta Majumdar wrote to the Union Home Minister seeking intervention in the violence, stating that "democracy in West Bengal has been strangled to death and free and fair elections are beyond imagination".