00:00we have elections happening next month and you know the same story i think will pan out this
00:06time also there will be elections there will be voting and then there will be reports of boot
00:10capturing heena let me tell you that boot capturing is a thing of the past now but it happened more so
00:15in 80s and 90s but we still see incidents of it happening now what you have is a silent boot
00:20capture silent boot capturing you know how it happens bribe money gifts like sadis liquor
00:30and these are things this is silent boot capture now you have the technology you have cctvs you have
00:36election commission officers at all levels now you have the social media you have the print media and
00:42the social media has been the biggest death knell of all boot capture but old habits die hard nobody
00:49can prevent the gifts of sadis suit links liquor and money that also is a way of boot capturing
00:55appealing in the name of caste and communal matters that also is boot capturing but those days
01:03where people would go and 20 people would go to the booth and stamp all the those days are over
01:08so today you see it has been perfected into a very subtle art of managing people and not only i would
01:17say manipulating the mindset and the thinking process through illegitimate gift because under the election
01:23and represent people's act giving of liquor giving of gifts giving of such gifts also is a crime is
01:30an offense and therefore i would appeal to the district officers and the election commission
01:35observers to see to it that the model code of conduct is scrupulously followed no gifts exchange
01:41hands especially liquor etc do not reach the electorate and those who are supposed to vote so during
01:47elections do you think that the illegal smuggling of liquor uh you know increases because we have
01:54these kind of activities taking place you see unfortunately what you say are very prophetic
02:00there has been very large number of recovery of illegitimate liquor along the up-bihar border
02:06in the recent days if you just see the statistics of the last 30 days you see that recovery of
02:11illegitimate liquor contraband liquor on the up-bihar border has gone up manifold you know why only
02:18because of the fact that it is being smuggled into bihar so as to be distributed to the electorate
02:23then if we know that this happens during elections then why is nothing happening in these border
02:30of course things are that is why these things are being recovered had things not been happening they
02:34would not have been recovered and they would not have been caught but then how are people emboldened to
02:39do this if we have right it makes a lot of money you see even tatas and virlas and adani the nambanis
02:45cannot have this level profit they convert 100 rupee note into 2 000 rupees as the smuggling of
02:50illegitimate liquor is spurious liquor is and also transporting liquor from up into a state that is
02:56going into elections that makes means a lot of money first they would try to win over the excise and
03:01the police officials if they're unable to then the police and the excise officers will challenge them
03:06recover them and that is what the exercise of the proactive effort has yielded results and i would
03:12compliment both the up and the bihar police for recovering unprecedented amount of illicit liquor
03:18so is it happening under any sort of joint operation or is it happening with both sides it always happens
03:24individually also but when there's an election there are joint operations joint sharing of intelligence
03:29and joint rates also i don't deny the fact that some of the liquor will not be taken away by them
03:36or misused by the local police officer i also accept the fact but 90 percent of the liquor will be
03:42displayed and declared as a contraband and almost 100 percent but in one or two cases if this does
03:49happen i don't deny the possibility but the police leadership now everything is done you know what the
03:53advantage of having a mobile phone with of course people taking making videos social media and some
04:00very very adventurous and proactive police officers what they do is to take journalists wrong also they
04:05make videos of the entire raid and the arrest and the recovery there is no escape from that because
04:10everything is uh into the media then immediately in real time
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