A policeman eats breakfast before voting starts at St Xavier's High School, Mumbai.
Voters line up at a polling booth set up inside a cowshed in Aarey Milk Colony.
Twenty-year-old first-time voters Aditya Dalvi and Monty Bhalerao pose for a photo after casting their votes opposite Worli seaface.
Seventy-eight-year-old Manohar Pyarelal Pandya waits on a makeshift palanquin installed by the Election Commission for senior citizens at a polling booth, while officials search for his name in the voter's list.
Residents of Jari Mari in Kurla check for their names on the voters list.
Media persons await the arrival of Bollywood celebrities outside a polling centre in Juhu.
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