Section 49 in The Orissa Municipal Delimitation of Wards, Reservation of Seats and Conduct of Election Rules, 1994
49. Safe guards against personation.
(1)Every elector about whose answers to the questions put under Rule 48 the Polling Officer is satisfied shall allow his left forefinger to be inspected by the Polling Officer and an indelible ink mark to be put on it.(2)If any elector refuses to allow his left forefinger to be inspected or marked in accordance with a view to removing the ink mark, he shall not be supplied with any ballot paper or allowed to cast his/her vote.(3)Any reference in this rule to the left forefinger of an elector shall in the case where the elector has his left forefinger missing, be construed as a reference to any other finger of his left hand, and shall in the case where ail the fingers of his left hand are missing, be construed as a reference to the forefinger or any other finger of his right hand, and shall in the case where all his fingers of both the hands are missing, be construed as a reference to such extremity of his left or right arm as he possesses.
