16-12-2020 The Asian Independent

26 16-12-2020 to 31-12-2020 WORLD
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DDC ELECTIONS :
31 constituencies in J&K to go
to polls on Wed in Phase 7
Jammu : A total of 31 constituencies
are set to go to the polls in the seventh
phase of the ongoing District
Development Council (DDC) elections,
while 438 panch and 69
sarpanch seats will also witness voting
on Wednesday across Jammu and
Kashmir.
Addressing a press conference,
State Election Commissioner (SEC)
K.K. Sharma informed that a total of
31 DDC constituencies will go to the
polls on Wednesday, 13 in Kashmir
division and 18 in Jammu division.
Giving further details, the SEC said
that for the 13 DDC constituencies in
Kashmir division going to the polls on
Wednesday, there are 148 candidates
in the fray including 34 females. In
Jammu division, there are 150 candidates
in the fray for the 18 DDC constituencies,
including 38 females.
A total of 6,87,115 electors
(3,59,187 males and 3,27,928 females)
are going to elect their representatives
in all the 31 DDC constituencies. As
95% police stations in India
using CCTNS software : Govt
New Delhi : More than
95 per cent of the total
16,098 police stations across
the country have been using
the software facility Crime
and Criminal Tracking
Network and Systems
(CCTNS), a mission mode
modernisation project under
the National e-Governance
Plan (NeGP) of the Ministry
of Home Affairs (MHA).
Connectivity is available
at 97 per cent of the police
stations and 93 per cent of
them are entering 100 per
cent FIRs through the project.
Noting that integrated
database concepts like the
CCTNS and ICJS have
become indispensable to
realise the dream of New
India, Minister of State for
Home, G. Kishan Reddy, on
Tuesday shared the details
while addressing the inaugural
session of the second
conference on 'Good
Practices in Crime and
Criminal Tracking Network
and Systems/Interoperable
Criminal Justice System
(ICJS)' through video conferencing.
The two-day conference
has been organised
by the National Crime
Records Bureau (NCRB).
Reddy also said that integrated
database concepts
like the CCTNS and ICJS
have become indispensable
to realise the dream of New
India and that the two key
modernisation programmes
of the MHA have led to
effective law enforcement
and proved to be force multipliers.
"It is a reality that
crime does not follow jurisdictional
boundaries. Hence,
our response to crime should
also not be restricted by
boundaries. Immediate
recording of crime and the
access of the information to
all the stakeholders is
undoubtedly a key aspect of
any effective law enforcement
operation. This has led
to the genesis of the project
of CCTNS," Reddy said.
"This about Rs 2,000
crore mission mode project
has revolutionised investigation
and policing with its
massive reach and connectivity.
It has managed to connect
the police stations and
other offices, even in the
most far-flung areas," the
minister said.
Reddy said the ICJS takes
data sharing to a higher level
and ensures a single source
of truth between law
enforcement and judicial
systems. "Without doubt,
ICJS is a force multiplier in
this data driven world."
The minister called for
replicating the good initiatives
taken by one state in
other states, saying "it is a
matter of great privilege,
under the leadership of
Prime Minister Narendra
Modiji, the government has
used cooperative federalism
as a guiding mantra and the
states work together, learn
together and propel each
other forward".
many as 1,852 polling stations have
been designated for the polling, 1,068
in Kashmir division and 784 in Jammu
division.
The SEC further informed that of
the 117 sarpanch vacancies notified in
the seventh phase, 30 have been elected
unopposed. There shall be contest
in 69 constituencies and 231 candidates,
including 79 females, are in the
fray, he added.
Similarly, he said that out of the
total 1,270 panch vacancies notified in
this phase, 416 were elected unopposed,
and 438 constituencies will go
to the polls with 1,000 candidates,
including 287 female candidates.
The SEC said that all the requisite
arrangements for this phase are in
place, including man power, election
materials and security arrangements in
all the poll-bound areas.
Referring to the arrangements in
place in view of the Covid-19 pandemic,
the SEC said that adequate
arrangements have been put in place to
ensure safety of all the stakeholders.
Sanitisers, thermal scanners and face
masks have been arranged at the
polling stations to ensure that the
SOPs issued by the concerned authorities
are strictly followed at the polling
stations, he added.
8,606 litres of liquor seized per
day in Bihar in last 11 months
Patna : Despite stringent
punishment for the trade or
consumption of liquor in
Bihar, bootleggers have continued
to sell liquor illegally.
In the last 11 months, the
Prohibition Excise &
Registration Department of
Bihar police seized 8,606
litres of liquor per day from
January 1 to November 30
this year. A total of
28,91,731 litres of liquor
including 8,59,063 litres of country
made liquor and 20,32,667 litres of
Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL)
was seized in 43 districts by the
department, a senior official said on
condition of anonymity.
"39,467 FIRs have been registered
and 48,187 people have been arrested
in this connection so far while
26,039,56 litres of liquor has been
destroyed," he said. "We have initiated
a special drive against illegal trade
and transportation of liquor. Sixty
four raids were conducted and apart
from liquor, we also seized 24,000
litres of spirit, Rs 1,83,890 cash and
88 mobile phones," he added.
Following the ban on liquor sale in
Bihar, mafias started home delivery of
liquor through various illegal means.
"We have a structure of local intelligence
to keep a tab on illegal
traders. Based on information by local
intelligence, we conducted 346 raids
and arrested 171 offenders involved
either in home delivery or consumption
of liquor. We have registered
cases against 196 persons as well," he
said. A total of 1,21,121 litres of
IMFL was seized while it was being
delivered to the clients between
January 1 to November 30. Apart
from this, 26.74 kg ganja (marijuana),
450 litre Tari, 50 mobile phones, three
firearms, 12 cartridges and two magazines
have also been seized.
According to the police, the majority
of the smuggling cases were
detected from the border areas of
Nepal, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and
West Bengal. In a joint operation by
the department and the Sitamarhi
police on December 14, four persons,
identified as Pankaj Thakur, Shyam
Babu, Salamat Khan and Anish Khan,
were arrested in Birrakh village under
the Sursand police station.
Sitamarhi ASP Pramod Kumar
said, "We carried out an operation on
the intervening night of December 13
and 14 based on specific inputs and
managed to track the truck behind a
cement store on Sursand-Pupri highway
at Birrakh village on Indo-Nepal
border. 527 cartons of liquor worth Rs
20 lakh were seized from it."