All arrangements have been made for the Kovur
by-election on Sunday with the authorities starting transportation of
electronic voting machines and other polling material and staff to
respective polling stations from tonight.
So far, 225
liquor cartons had been seized since the electioneering began. Ten
mobile teams consisting officials from the excise, police and the
revenue departments seized 60 liquor cartons from 5 p.m. on Friday to
this morning. The teams would keep a watch throughout the night on the
given routes, according to excise deputy commissioner P. Nageswara Rao.
Heavy
bandobust arrangements have been made with the deployment of three
additional SPs, 12 DSPs, 50 CIs, 131 SIs, 335 ASIs and HCs, 1,245
constables, 84 women constables, 285 home guards, 300 each of armed
reserve force and APSP battalion and five companies of central
paramilitary forces.
Over 30 cases were filed in
different places against some persons for distributing cash and liquor
and also gifts. The gifts included silver ornaments, watches and cricket
kits.
Collector B. Sridhar, Guntur range IG Harish
Kumar Gupta, SP B.V. Ramana Kumar and other officials supervised the
arrangements for distribution of polling material and its transportation
from Polytechnic College in Kovur town.
Since
Friday night, officials intensified vigil all over segment. In
Indukuripeta mandal, officials seized 1,081 watches and 1,452 silver
lamps, all worth Rs. 20 lakh. These were reportedly meant for
distribution among voters. Five other cases were registered and cash
amounting to Rs. 50,000 was seized in same mandal.
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