By Admin 
About one lakh personnel of the Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) are expected to be deployed to ensure independent, fair and peaceful assembly elections in Bihar. Officials gave this information on Tuesday (October 7, 2025). CAPF personnel will also be deployed along with Bihar Police for Bihar assembly elections to be held in two phases. The Election Commission on Monday announced that voting will be held in two phases on November 6 and 11 for Bihar’s 243 -member assembly. The counting of votes will take place on 14 November.
Pre -election deployment starts, number will increase after final approval
He informed that about 500 companies have reached the state under pre -election deployment. After getting final approval from the Election Commission and Ministry of Home Affairs, up to 1,200 companies can be deployed. A CAPF company consists of about 70-80 personnel.
Most companies from SSB, other forces also include
Maximum companies of CAPF will be taken from the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) for Bihar elections, followed by other forces like Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Border Security Force (BSF), India-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and Railway Protection Force (RPF).
Bihar demanded 1,800 companies
Officials said that Bihar has demanded about 1,800 companies from the Election Commission for the election. According to CAPF officials, these units will be in addition to Bihar Police units to provide security during the upcoming assembly elections.
Supreme Court sought information of voters removed from the final voter list
Over there, the Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Election Commission to provide details of 3.66 lakh voters excluded from the final voter list prepared after the special intensive revision (SIR) process of Bihar. The Election Commission informed the court that most of the names added are of new voters and no voters have filed any complaint or appeal so far from the list.
A bench of Justice Suryakant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi said that all the information available about the Election Commission excluded the voters excluded should be brought on the court records by Thursday (9 October) when it would further hear the petitions challenging the SIR process.