The Election Fee of India seized money, freebies, liquor, medication and valuable metals value ₹558.64 crore in Maharashtra, Jharkhand and bypoll-bound meeting and parliamentary constituencies throughout 14 states between October 15 and November 6, the ballot physique stated on Wednesday.
Maharashtra and Jharkhand noticed seizures value ₹281.93 crore and ₹158.7 crore, respectively, marking a 3.5-time improve in comparison with the 2019 meeting elections. In 2019, Maharashtra noticed seizures value ₹103.61 crore whereas Jharkhand noticed seizures value ₹18.76 crore.
Of the ₹558.64 crore seized, ₹241.02 crore, or 40% of the worth of products seized, had been meant for use as freebies. Treasured steel value ₹104.18 crore accounted for 18.6% of the whole seizures adopted by money value ₹92.47 crore (16.6%).
In Maharashtra, valuable steel accounted for 32% ( ₹90.53 crore) of the seizures adopted by money value ₹73.11 crore (25.9%) and freebies value ₹42.55 crore (15.1%).
In Jharkhand, freebies accounted for 80.6% ( ₹127.88 crore) of the seizures adopted by money value ₹10.46 crore (6.6%) and medicines value ₹8.99 crore (5.7%).
The ballot physique’s Election Seizure Administration System (ESMS) has been used for actual time reporting of interceptions and seizures. The 91 constituencies of Maharashtra and 19 constituencies of Jharkhand have been marked as Expenditure Delicate Constituencies “for extra focussed vigil”, the ECI stated in an announcement.
The ECI accredited a complete of 18,045 marketing campaign associated requests by means of its Suvidha internet portal and cell app with 8,546 from Maharashtra and 6,317 from Jharkhand.
The ECI stated that it had resolved 9,681 complaints associated to election code violations reported on the cVigil app because the elections had been declared. 98% of all complaints had been disposed with over 83% of them being resolved in beneath 100 minutes, the ballot physique stated.
