Calcutta, Apr 30 (PTI): The Election Commission on Saturday ordered filing of a police case against Trinamool Congress lawmaker Sonali Guha after she was caught on camera ordering party workers to beat up and throw out agents of the opposition Communist Party of India (Marxist).

”Mere baar kore dis CPM agent der ekdom, ora EVM kharap kore rekhe diyeche. (Beat up and throw out the CPM agents… they have damaged the EVM),” Guha, the deputy speaker in the outgoing Assembly, was heard as telling someone over phone. Television cameras were recording her as she said this.

Guha is the Trinamool candidate from South 24 Parganas district's Satgachia constituency.

Election Commission officials said that, after hearing her comments on TV, they had asked the district authorities to file a first-information report against her in this case.

In one of the booths in her constituency, voting was halted for sometime after an electronic voting machine was found to be malfunctioning.

Hearing this, Guha went to the booth and tried to check the EVM herself but was stopped by the central armed forces.

”Polling has stopped here for more than an hour but the EC has taken no action,” the Trinamool leader said.