00:00We have elections happening next month and you know the same story I think will pan out this time also.
00:07There 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.
00:14It happened more so in 80s and 90s but we still see incidents of it happening.
00:18I know. Now what you have is a silent boot capture.
00:21Silent boot capturing you know how it happens.
00:24Bribe, money, gifts like sadis, liquor and these are things. This is silent boot capture.
00:32Now you have the technology, you have CCTVs, you have election commission officers at all levels.
00:39Now you have the social media, you have the print media and the social media has been the biggest death knell of all boot capture.
00:46But old habits die hard. Nobody can prevent the gifts of sadis, suit links, liquor and money.
00:53That also is a way of boot capturing. Appealing in the name of caste and communal matters.
01:00That also is boot capturing. But those days where people would go and 20 people would go to the booth and stamp all them.
01:07Those days are over. So today you see it has been perfected into a very subtle art of managing people.
01:15And not only I would say manipulating the mindset and the thinking process through illegitimate gifts.
01:22Because under the election and representing people's act, giving of liquor, giving of gifts, giving of sub-gifts also is a crime, is an offence.
01:31And therefore I would appeal to the district officers and the election commission observers to see to it that the model code of conduct is scrupulously followed.
01:40No gifts exchange hands, especially liquor etc. do not reach the electorate and those who are supposed to vote.
01:47So during elections do you think that the illegal smuggling of liquor increases because we have these kinds of activities taking place.
01:57You see unfortunately what you say are very prophetic. There has been very large number of recovery of illegitimate liquor along the UP Bihar border in the recent days.
02:07If you just see the statistics of the last 30 days, you see that recovery of illegitimate liquor, contraband liquor on the UP Bihar border has gone up manifold.
02:17You know why? Only because of the fact that it is being smuggled into Bihar so as to be distributed to the electorate.
02:24Then if we know that this happens during elections then why is nothing happening in these border areas?
02:30Of course, that is why these things are being recovered. Had things not been happening they would not have been recovered and they would not have been caught.
02:37But then how are people emboldened to do this if we have the right system?
02:41It makes a lot of money. You see even Tata's and Birla's and Adani's and Ambani's cannot have this level property.
02:46They convert 100 rupees note into 2000 rupees as the smuggling of illegitimate liquor is, spurious liquor is and also transporting liquor from UP into a state that is going into elections.
02:57That means a lot of money. First they will try to win over the excise and the police officials. If they are unable to, then the police and the excise officers will chalan them, recover them and that is what the exercise of the proactive effort has yielded results.
03:12And I would compliment both the UP and the Bihar police for recovering unprecedented amount of illicit liquor.
03:19So is it happening under any sort of joint operation or is it happening with both sides individually?
03:23It always happens individually also but when there is an election, there are joint operations, joint sharing of intelligence and joint rates also.
03:33I don't deny the fact that some of the liquor will not be taken away by them or misused by the local police officer. I also accept the fact.
03:40But 90% of the liquor will be displayed and declared as a contraband and almost 100%. But in one or two cases, if this does happen, I don't deny the possibility.
03:50But the police leadership, now everything is done. You know what? The advantage of having a mobile phone with, of course, people taking, making videos, social media and some very, very adventurous and proactive police officers.
04:02What they do is to take journalists along also. They make videos of the entire raid and the arrests and the recoveries. There is no escape from that because everything is into the media then immediately in real time.
04:14Real time.
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