"We are anxious about Anantnag polls because it is a more sensitive area", the police official said.
The Chief Electoral Officer Jammu and Kashmir Shantmanu said that re-polling would be held at 38 violence-hit polling stations.
Reports suggest polling stations were attacked and EVM machines were also vandalised at many places.
The poll turnout was only 6.5%.Earlier on Monday, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday had deferred the Anantnag by-polls till May 25.Earlier, it was scheduled to be held on April 12.
Police on Monday imposed curfew-like curbs on movement of people across several parts of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, a day after clashes with protesters during a by-election killed eight people and injured more than 200.
Eight civilians were killed and scores injured in firing by security forces as mobs tried to attack some polling stations in the constituency during balloting on Sunday.
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Internet service remained suspended for the third successive day by the Indian state in view of blocking access to information over human rights abuse by the Indian army in the valley.
He said that while there were no curbs imposed in the summer capital here, security forces have been deployed in strength at sensitive places across the city to prevent any untoward incident.
The separatists have asked people to resume normal activities and thanked them for staying away from bypoll in which only 7 per cent voter turnout - the lowest in the valley in the last 27 years - was recorded.
The polling stations are based in 30 locations or buildings across Srinagar.
Security was stepped up after separatists extended shutdown call till April 12 - election day in south Kashmir, the authorities also made a decision to suspend the internet services and postphoned the university examinations scheduled.
Besides, chief minister Mehbooba Mufti's brother and the PDP's candidate for Anantnag, Tasaduq Mufti, told reporters that the state government had written to the poll panel that elections couldn't be held in the current climate of unrest.
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