Procedure to dispose cases slow
Cases involving seizures are not attended to after polls
Cases booked for violations of the election code do not come to any conclusion. They are either dropped if they are against legislators who are elected to the House, or the maximum punishment is imposition of a fine.
Money that is seized by the police is handed over to the income tax department in the city or mandal revenue officers in districts.
The IT department checks if the cash is accountable or illegal (black or white).
“For booking a large number of cases the CEO Election Commission and the commissioner of police have been praised, but then, after the election results everybody forgets about the cases. There has been very little progress in the disposal of cases booked under section 171 IPC.
Further, 4,974 cases were booked involving two lakh litres of liquor and there is no information available about this,” said M. Padmanabha Reddy, general secretary, Forum for Good Governance.
In Andhra Pradesh, action has been dropped against nine legislators who were elected to power.
For the election year 2018, since the day the election code for the Assembly elections in TS came into force, the police have seized around `31.41 crore in cash, and liquor worth `1 crore.
Six unlicenced arms were seized, 7,411 licenced arms deposited, 8,622 PD cases were booked, 43,101 bindover cases were filed and 3,765 warrants were issued.