In a serious pre-poll election seizure on Saturday, the Excise Division confiscated 12,191.40 litres of Indian Made Liquor (IML) value ₹1,13,80,101 at KSBCL depot, Madanayakanalli, in Chickballapur parliamentary constituency in Bengaluru City district.
The Election Fee has made whole seizures value over ₹65.12 crore since March 16 when the mannequin code of conduct (MCC) got here into power in Karnataka. This consists of money, liquor, medicine, and treasured metals.
After MCC got here into power, the amount of money seized was ₹21.85 crore, whereas liquor value ₹28.69 crore, narcotics value ₹1.6 crore and freebies value ₹ 82.12 lakh had been confiscated, in line with a launch from the workplace of the Chief Electoral Officer, Karnataka.
A complete of 1,030 FIRs have been registered with regard to seizures of money, liquor, medicine, treasured metals, and freebies. The Excise Division has booked 1,023 heinous circumstances, 937 circumstances for breach of licence circumstances, 53 Narcotic medicine and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) circumstances, and 4,005 circumstances underneath Part 15 (a) of the Karnataka Excise act 1965. As many as 591 various kinds of automobiles have been seized, in line with the discharge.
As many as 10,040 complaints have been acquired by cVIGIL software. Of those, 6,207 complaints are associated to posters/banners with out permission, 530 associated to posters with out obligatory declaration, 146 associated to property defacement and 55 associated to cash distribution and 34 associated to distribution of presents/coupons. Of the full complaints, 9,228 are discovered to be appropriate and motion has been taken, the discharge says.
