Cash and other material worth over Rs 24.71 crore have been confiscated in the State from the date of announcement of election ie March 10 and April 04, 2019.
Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) VL Kantha Rao has informed that expenditure monitoring work is being carried out by the Police, Excise, Income Tax and other agencies during the Lok Sabha Election-2019.
The cash and other material include Rs 10.32 crore in cash, illegal liquor worth Rs 6.88 crore, narcotics worth Rs 3.44 crore, precious metal costing Rs 59.55 lakh and weapons, vehicles and other material worth Rs 3.46 crore.
Rao further informed that since the model code of conduct has come into effect, 4.71 lakh cases of property defacement have been registered between March 10 and April 8, 2019 in the state. Out of these cases, action has been taken in total 4.21 lakh cases. Action has been taken in 3.51 lakh cases out of the total 3.98 lakh cases of Government property defacement. Similarly, action has been taken in 69,941 cases out of the total 72,199 cases of private property defacement cases. Besides, 36,744 cases of misuse of vehicles have been registered.
Besides, the CEO informed that since the model code of conduct has come into effect 28,399 non-bailable warrants have been issued between March 10 and April 05, 2019 in order to maintain law and order in the State. Along with this 2.54 lakh firearms have been deposited in the police stations.
According to the vulnerability mapping, 1,871 vulnerable areas have been identified. Besides, 5,924 people likely to create obstacle in election have been identified and prohibitory action has been taken against 5,924 cases. Similarly, 12,713 critical polling booths have been identified till date.