Cash, goods worth Rs 3,400 crore seized during Lok Sabha elections 2019: EC
Cash, goods worth Rs 3,400 crore seized during Lok Sabha elections 2019: EC 909 posts on social media platforms were removed; 647 confirmed cases of paid news, says poll panel LokSabha Elections 2019 : After the finishing of the seventh and last period of surveying on Sunday, the Election Commission said money, medications, alcohol and valuable metals worth Rs 3,449.12 crore were seized by authorization organizations since the Lok Sabha surveys were declared on March 10. This is thrice of what offices seized amid the 2014 Lok Sabha survey process. In 2014, law authorization offices made seizures worth Rs 1,206 crore, the EC’s executive general (race use) Dilip Sharma said. Law implementation offices between March 10 and May 19 caught Rs 839.03 crore in real money, alcohol worth Rs 294.41 crore, drugs worth Rs 1,270.37 crore, valuable metals, including gold, worth Rs 986.76 crore and “complimentary gifts”, including sarees, wrist watches, went for inciting voters wo...