909 posts on social media platforms were removed; 647 confirmed cases of paid news, says poll panel
After the finishing of the seventh and last period of surveying on Sunday, the Election Commission said money, medications, alcohol and valuable metals worth Rs 3,449.12 crore were seized by requirement offices since the Lok Sabha surveys were reported on March 10. This is thrice of what offices seized amid the 2014 Lok Sabha survey process. In 2014, law implementation offices made seizures worth Rs 1,206 crore, the EC’s chief general (race use) Dilip Sharma said.
Law authorization offices between March 10 and May 19 caught Rs 839.03 crore in real money, alcohol worth Rs 294.41 crore, drugs worth Rs 1,270.37 crore, valuable metals, including gold, worth Rs 986.76 crore and “complimentary gifts”, including sarees, wrist watches, went for inciting voters worth Rs 58.56 crore were seized.
EC authorities said they coordinated web based life stages, including Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp, to expel a few that were found to damage the EC’s code. They said web based life stages expelled 909 posts. Facebook evacuated 650 posts, Twitter brought down 220 posts, ShareChat expelled 31, YouTube five and WhatsApp three.
Of the 650 posts brought somewhere around Facebook, 482 were political messages posted amid the “quietness period”. The “quiet period” begins 48 hours before the hour set for determination of surveying in a specific stage. The seventh period of surveying found some conclusion at 6 pm on Sunday, so the “quietness period” had started at 6 pm on Friday for this stage…
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