The Election Commission of India (ECI) has started maintaining strict vigil over the transactions of large amount. The election commission ordered the banks that information about sudden increase and decrease of bank balance should be informed to the commission.
All the financial institution has been ordered to review weekly financial transactions compulsorily.The election commission once again has taken stick action to check the misuse of money in the lok Sabha elections.
The district election office has held a meeting of bank officers heads of financial institutions and ordered that details of all big transactions should be apprised weekly compulsorily up to lok Sabha elections including the suspected bank account.
A guide line has been issued in the last assembly elections to keep a watch on cash transactions made through financial institutions. The election commission would take the help of income tax department to keep a watch on election expenditure in lok Sabha elections.
Temporary pickets would be established on the borders of the district with the issue of code of conduct of lok Sabha elections. At these pickets the police would be given the responsibility to check the misuse of money during elections and search the private vehicles together with public vehicles with the help of secret cameras.
The collector and district election officer P Narhari said that all the financial institutions and banks have been asked to give information about large transactions of money during lok Sabha election. Expense observers would be deployed to check the misuse of money and transaction of money in the district.