Assam breaks all records in poll seizures, Rs 18 crore worth items caught so far
Assam broke all earlier records in seizures of money, liquor, medicine, and different items in the run-up to the Assembly polls with numerous businesses already confiscating over Rs 18 crore worth of items and arresting round 110 folks in the final 11 days, officers mentioned on Tuesday. The highest quantity of seizures worth over Rs 5.72 crore came about through the 24 hours, beginning at 9 am on Sunday, an official informed PTI.
After the polls have been notified on February 26, all election districts in Assam fashioned a minimal of three Static Surveillance Teams (SST) and Flying Squads (FS) every, with some even having six such groups every, he added.
“We have 50 election districts and each has at least six teams of SST and FS. So, we have a minimum of 756 teams working across the state. The seizures by all state and central agencies along with SST and FS have crossed all figures of last elections,” the official mentioned.
Since the Model Code of Conduct got here into drive, the businesses have seized an total Rs 18.31 crore worth of items until Monday, based on the each day seizure report of the Election Department, Assam.
It consists of Rs 4.27 crore in money, liquor (3.58 lakh litres) worth Rs 5.52 crore, Rs 4 crore worth medicine and different narcotics substances, Rs 1 crore worth valuable metals equivalent to gold and silver, and Rs 3.52 crore of different items like completely different freebies.
The numerous groups and businesses have arrested 100 individuals for involvement in unlawful liquor and eight individuals for narcotics-related crimes because the Model Code of Conduct got here into drive.
The highest 26 individuals have been arrested from the Cachar district, adopted by 16 in Goalpara and 13 in Sivasagar over the past 11 days, one other report by the Election Department mentioned.
On Monday night time, Rs 19.55 lakh money was recovered from three individuals in the Barpeta constituency by an SST. As they failed to provide any legitimate doc for the money, the currencies have been seized and deposited on the Treasury Office.
Following such big seizures throughout the state, a evaluation assembly was held on Monday in presence of Special Central Observers of the Election Commission with numerous regulatory businesses.
The assembly was attended by the Special General Observer Sudarsanam Srinivasan, Special Police Observer Ashok Kumar, and Special Expenditure Observer Neena Nigam together with Additional Chief Electoral Officer Vinod Seshan, EC Director-General Dharmendra Sharma, and EC Expenditure Director Pankaj Srivastava.
“A detailed discussion over functioning of various regulatory agencies regarding search, seizure, and maintenance of Law and Order and expenditure monitoring was done,” an official assertion mentioned.
Various regulatory businesses equivalent to Excise, Police, DRI, NCB, SLBC (SBI), Income Tax, RPF, CISF, CGST, SSB, and BSF introduced their efficiency report on the subject of search and seizure.
Of the full 126 seats in Assam Assembly, elections to 47 might be held on March 27, whereas 39 will go to the polls on April 1, and voting in the remaining 40 seats might be held on April 6.
The counting of votes in Assam will happen on May 2 together with these in 4 extra states.Â
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