By Our Correspondent
CUTTACK/BHUBANESWAR: DGP Arun Sarangi on Sunday while addressing a press meet, said, Since January 1, 33,000 Warrants executed/recalled/disposed off, 39,987 PRs under preventive sections of law submitted, 47, 289 persons bound down. 7 booked under NSA, 233 illegal arms seized in Odisha.
DGP Arun Sarangi along with Additional DGP (Law and Order) and (Communications), Sanjay Kumar Singh, ADGP, SAP, RP Koche, IGP CID-CB Shefeen Ahamed K. , IGP(Provisioning) , Yatindra Koyal, IGP, BPSPA & Addl. Charge of IGP, CAW & CW, S. Shyni and SP, State Police Headquarters’ Battula Gangadhar were briefing press regarding General and Assembly election in 4 phases starting from 13/5/22024.
In all, Election will be held in 37,898 Polling Stations at 30,023 locations. There are 1023 Polling Station in the LWE area 11 naxal affected districts.
Since 1st Jan 2024, 33000 warrants have been executed/recalled/disposed off. 39987 PRs under preventive sections of law have been submitted and 47289 persons have been bound down. 7 Persons have been booked under NSA.233 no. of illegal arms have been seized. 112 cartridges, 113 bombs and 1530 no. of explosive seized. 3 illegal arms manufacturing units busted. 4,50,000 ltrs of illegal liquor have been seized, 22000 cases registered and 3428 persons have been arrested. 725 Qtl. of Ganja and 4.5 Kg of Brown Sugar have been seized and 1048 Persons have been arrested.
5000 Acres of Hemp Cultivation destroyed. 3650 litres of Cough Syrup have been seized and 1048 persons arrested. Rs 4.1 crores amount of Cash have been seized. 19 election related cases including MCC violation are under investigation.
For checking at interstate and interdistrict flow of illegal materials, Contraband and unaccounted Cash, 121 Inter-State BCPs and 280 Intra-State BCPs have been functioning. CCTV cameras have been placed in all Interstate BCPs.
After declaration of MCC on 16/3/2024, 737- FSTs, 722-SSTs have been made functional round the clock.
To address LWE problems, LWE Polling Stations have been identified. AN OPS have been stepped up,1264 different types of AN Ops have been launched. From 1.1.2024 , 4 Maoists cadre have been neutralized and 17 cadres have surrendered before police . Huge dumps, 6 Arms have been seized from Maoists.
