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Udupi : As many as 112 cases are registered under cVigil applications, of which 77 cases are inquired and disposed of. Remaining is considered to be fake, said Hephsiba Rani Korlapati Deputy Commissioner of Udupi district.

Addressing a press meet at DC office, Rajathadri, Manipal here on Tuesday, April 9, DC said that the district stands first in the state for early disposal of cases registered under cVigil applications. As many as 66 cases are disposed of within 100 minutes.

DC said that all preparation for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections are underway in the Udupi – Chickmagaluru constituency. The first stage as well as second stage of training for all booths level elections officials already completed. For the election purpose PRO 956, Po 1912 Micro observer and 250 officials are appointed. The training will be provided for Micro observers on April 10.

She said the work on the commissioning of the EVMs with symbol loading is being held in the presence of BEL technical staff. The preparations for EVMs and VVPATs have also begun in all the four assembly constituencies.

Funds of Rs 48.91 lac is released for the repair work of the polling booths from the government. The infrastructure is offered in all 1,111 polling booths in the district. The voters slips for 6,48,885 voters have been distributed and the remaining voters will receive the voting slips within the next two days, she said.

Korlapati said that Udupi district have 25 Sakhi woman polling booths which each assembly constituency will have five Sakhi booths. There are three polling booths completely managed by persons with disabilities and one ethnic polling booth.

Rs 23,50,200 lac cash was seized in 13 cases in connection with violation of poll model code of conduct. All seized amount has been released after the verification led by CEO team, she said.

About 15,809 .86 litres of liquor were seized by the Excise department and another 11.70 litres were seized by the district police, she said.

Meanwhile, as many as 3,695 weapons are surrendered and nine are exempted. As many as 21 weapons yet to recovered, she said.

To a query, DC said that due to feast of Christian community, they are exempted from election duty following the representation by the community to Election Commission.

Additional DC Vidya Kumari, Information department official Shah and Expenditure observer Sachin were present during the press meet.