Final Cover Election Expenditure - Election Commission of India

The production, offtake, Stock Limits of Licensed Stockists, Daily receipt and off take ofretail sellers of IMFL/Beer/Country Liquor and Opening and Closing time of LiquorVending Shops should be closely monitored with reference to the production figures inprevious year.Intensive vigil over inter state movement of vehicles at RTO Check Posts and border checkposts by Excise staff should be kept by special enforcement staff under the State ExciseDepartment who are deputed round the clock from the date of notification till the completionof Poll/ Repoll. Inter State co-ordination among Excise Commissioners with borderingStates should be done for monitoring of inter state movement of IMFL, Beer and CountryLiquor.District Level Nodal Officers and State Level Nodal Officer of Excise Department should beidentified to monitor the above aspects, conduct raids to seize illicit liquor.The District Level Nodal Officer will submit Report repot on alternate day as per theproforma given in Annexure- 22 of this Compendium for IMFL, Beer and Country Liquorin separate forms to State Level Nodal Officer with copy to the DEO and ExpenditureObservers. State Level Nodal Officer of Excise Department will, in turn, submit thealternate day Report on excise activity of the entire State to the CEO in the same proformawith copy to the Commission.5.10.7. Monitoring of cash withdrawal from Banks:The DEO shall ask all the banks to submit daily report on suspicious withdrawal of cashfrom bank account of any individual person during election process. The Commission videits letter No. 61/Complaints/AP-LS/2012/EEPS dated 19 th July,2012(Annexure-64) hasdirected the DEOs to call for the following suspicious transactions from the bank:(i) Unusual and suspicious cash withdrawal or deposit of cash in a bank accountexceeding Rs. 1 lakh during the process of election, without any such instance ofdeposit or withdrawal during the last two months.(ii)Unusual transfer of amount by RTGS from one bank account to the accounts of severalpersons in a district/constituency during the election process without any precedent ofsuch transfer.(iii) Any deposit of cash or withdrawal of cash exceeding Rs. 1 lakh from bank account ofcandidates or spouse or his dependants, as mentioned in the affidavit filed bycandidates which is available in CEO’s website.(iv) Any withdrawal of cash and deposit of cash exceeding Rs. 1 lakh in the account of thepolitical party during the election process.(v) Any other suspicious cash transactions, which might be used for bribing the electors.In case any suspicious nature of withdrawal of large amount of cash is noticed,necessary action may be taken and the information about large amount exceedingRs.10 lakh shall be passed on by the DEO to the Assistant/Dy. Director of Income Taxin charge of the district for necessary action under Income Tax laws.32