India, May 2 -- Clashes erupted during the first phase of panchayat polls in Assam on Friday, leaving several injured and a ballot box being thrown into a pond in Cachar and Sribhumi districts. At least two people have been arrested so far, police said.

"Three incidents of poll-related violence were reported during the Panchayat polls, and two persons have been arrested so far," superintendent of police of Sribhumi Partha Pratim Das said.

The polling at a centre in Sribhumi's Choudhury Tilla area was cancelled after a ballot box was thrown into a pond, district commissioner Pradeep Kumar Dwivedi said "Two groups attacked each other. Some of them entered the polling station and vandalised the properties. They forcibly and took away the b...