Five workers of a political party were arrested by the police under the Prevention of Property Defacement Act in Telibandha locality on Tuesday night for pasting campaign posters at a police station in the Raipur lok Sabha constituency.
According to Telibandha police, the workers pasted posters which read, Nishkriya Nahin, Sakriya Sandan Chaiye (Not inactive, need active MP), without seeking official permission. The arrested workers were later released.
The workers were allegedly seen pasting the posters by a passing police patrolling party which nabbed them. The police took them to the police station and registered a case against five of them under the Prevention of Property Defacement Act. They have been identified as Ashish Shinde, Rajendra Nishad, Golu Yadav, Mukesh Yadav and Mukesh Sahu.
Meanwhile, Collector and District Electoral Officer Thakur Ram Singh has instructed to register complaints against four candidates of the Raipur lok Sabha constituency under Section 171-J of Indian Penal Code for non-submission of election expenses account.
According to the information given by the Election Nodal Officer (Expenses), Mahadev Kanware, BSP candidate Guruji Virendra Kumar Dahariya and three independent candidates - Ramgopal Verma, Ramkrishna Verma and Heeralal Yadav - did not submit their day-to-day election related expenses account to the Expenses Observer’s office even after written and verbal notices. These candidates had to submit their account by April 12.
Earlier, notices had been served on 20 out 36 candidates of Raipur lok Sabha seat for non-submission of expenses account, out of them 16 have submitted their election related expenses account to the Expenses Observer’s office so far.
The Returning Officer had already given the schedule for submission of expenses account to all the candidates. As per the instructions, now the candidates have to submit their election related expenses account for the second phase of polls on April 16 and 17 and for third phase on April 21 and 22.