Cracking down on voter inducement by political leaders within the State, the Election Commission has made seizures totalling ₹92.97 crore, together with money, liquor, medicine, and metals, within the final 48 hours. The mannequin code of conduct for the Assembly elections is but to be enforced within the State.
The amount of money seized was ₹1.2 crore, whereas liquor value ₹2.66 crore, narcotics value ₹1.88 crore, treasured metals value ₹1.9 crore, and different gadgets (freebies) value ₹1.58 crore had been seized, mentioned an announcement from the workplace of the Chief Electoral Officer, Karnataka.
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar throughout his three-day ballot preparedness assessment within the State final week mentioned that using cash energy was a significant concern in Karnataka. While the Election Commission was ready by way of bodily infrastructure, the State businesses had been lagging behind in regulating the distribution of freebies, he had mentioned.
He had directed officers to extensively use sections 171-B and 171-E of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) to control such malpractices.
