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In this Asianet News EXCLUSIVE, Former Uttar Pradesh DGP Dr. Vikram Singh reveals how silent booth capturing has become a subtle art in Bihar's elections and exposes the rampant illegal liquor smuggling used to manipulate voters. He warns about the serious violation of the Election and Representative Peoples Act through illicit gifting, especially liquor, which remains a major offense. Dr. Singh appeals to district officers and election observers to strictly enforce the Model Code of Conduct to ensure free and fair elections.

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00:00we have elections happening next month uh and you know the same story i think will pan out this time
00:06also there will be elections there will be voting and then there will be reports of boot capturing
00:11hina let me tell you that boot capturing is a thing of the past now but it happened more so in
00:1680s and 90s but we still see incidents of i know now what you have is a silent boot capture
00:21silent 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 in
02:06the recent days if you just see the statistics of the last 30 days you see that recovery of illegitimate
02:12liquor contraband liquor on the up-bihar border has gone up manifold you know why only because of the
02:18fact that it is being smuggled into bihar so as to be distributed to the electorate then if we know
02:24that this happens during elections then why is nothing happening in these border of course that
02:30things are that is why these things are being recovered had things not been happening they would
02:34not have been recovered and they would not have been caught but then how are people emboldened to do
02:39this if we have right it makes a lot of money you see even tatas and vidlas and adanis and ambanis
02:45cannot have this level problem 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
03:36taken away by them or misused by the local police officer i also accept the fact but 90 percent of
03:41the liquor will be displayed and declared as a contraband and almost 10 percent but in one or
03:48two cases if this does happen i don't deny the possibility but the police leadership now everything
03:52is done you know what the advantage of having a mobile phone with of course people taking making
03:57videos social medias and some very very adventurous and proactive police officers what they do is to take
04:03journalists also they make videos of the entire raid and the arrest and the recovery there is no escape
04:09from that because everything is uh into the media then immediately in real time
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