Special procedure for preventing personation of electors

[37-A. Special procedure for preventing personation of electors. - With a view to preventing personation of electors provisions may be made by rules made under this Act, --

1. (a) for the marking with indelible ink on the little finger of every elector who applies for a ballot paper or ballot papers for the purpose of voting at a polling station before delivery of such paper or papers to him;
2. (b) for the production before the presiding officer or a polling officer of a polling station by every such elector as aforesaid of his identity card before the delivery of a ballot paper or ballot papers to him, if electors of the wards of the village panchayat in which the polling station is situated have been supplied with identity cards with or without their respective photographs attached thereto; and
3. (c) for prohibiting the delivery of any ballot paper to any person for voting at a polling station if at the time such person applies for such paper he has already such a mark on his little finger or does not produce on demand his identity card before the presiding officer or a polling officer of the polling station].