more-inThe Madras High Court on Monday recorded the observation of Election Commission that it had put in place unprecedented arrangements to curb electoral crimes in the R.K. Nagar Assembly constituency, slated to go for bypoll on Thursday. He called for increasing the central paramilitary forces substantially since there were chances of incidents, such as booth capturing. Surveillance measuresAdditional Solicitor General G. Rajagopalan said that it would not be possible to instal CCTV cameras in every street. He, however, pointed out that the ECI had 225 surveillance cameras in major streets and junctions in the constituency to record the movement of vehicles and undesirable elements. The ASG submitted a brief note stating that 36 flying squad teams, 15 static surveillance teams, 20 video surveillance teams and 36 check point duty teams had been deployed as on December 4.

Source: The Hindu December 18, 2017 19:30 UTC