PRocEEDTNGS oF THE DrsrRrcr CoLLEcroR & DrsrRrcr ErEcnoN OFFTcER, THRrssuR (Present: S Shonovos IAS) Sub General Election to Kerala LA Constituencies 2021 - Election Expenditure Monitoring - srATrc SURVETIANCE TEAM - Additional appointment of Executive Magistrates -Orders issued Read: 01: Compendium of lnstruction in Election Expenditure Monitoring by Election Commission of lndia 02: Press Note Not ECI/PI'|176/2O27 daled 26.02.2021 03f This Office order Number EL1-27090O127 Dated 16.O2.202L 04: This Office order Number EL1-27090O127 Dated 28.O2.2027 04: Direction of Expenditure Observer Sri.M.Thamizh Vendan, tRs 05: Section 21 of the Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 oRDER No: ELL.27O9OO{2O21; 14TH MARCH 2021 To ensure a free, fair, transparent and peaceful conduct of election to assembly constituencies and parliamentary constituencies, Election Commission of lndia has issued necessary directions in the Compendium, read as 1't paper above, to monitor / assess the Election Expenditure incurred by contesting candidates and political parties, constituting various squads / tea ms of officers by the District Election Officers and all such expenditure related activities are to be supervised and regularly monitored by the Nodal Officer for Election Expenditure Monitoring in District. ln connection with the General Election to the Legislative Assembly Constituencies 2021, as part of Expenditure Monitoring under guidelines of Election Commission of lndia Sri.Pramod.P.B., Joint Deputy Commissioner, State Goods and Services Tax, Thrissur (Mobile No: 9447786336) has already been appointed as Nodal Officer for Expenditure Monitoring during the General Election to Kerala LA Constituencies 2021 in Thrissur District, as per the Proceedings read as 3'd paper above. As per the guidelines Election Commission of lndia has directed to constitute three or more Static Surveillance Teams in each LA Constituency with Executive Magistrate as head of the team and with three or more Police Personnel and one videographer. Accordingly, Executive Magistrates for forming three Static Surveillance Team have been appointed for each of the 13 L A Constituencies in Thrissur District, as per the Proceedings read as 4th paper above. Sri.M.Thamizh Vendan lRS, the Expenditure observer, appointed in respect of Manalur, Kaipamangalam & Nattika LA Constituencies has directed to constitute three more Static Surveillance Teams in Manalur, Kaipamangalam & Nattika LA Constituencies, so that three teams sha!! be at work at a time, instead of only one team, constituted now. ln the circumstances, three more teams for Static Surveillance are hereby formed, appointing the following Officers as Executive Magistrates, read as per 5th paper above, in respect of Manalur, Kaipamangalam & Nattika LA Constituencies, with immediate effect. Static Number and Name Name and Designation of Surveillance Mobile No. of LAC Executive Magistrate for SST Team No. P Mohanan, I WELFARE FUND INSPECTOR Team 4 96053701 06 064 Manalur Kerala Toddy Employees Wetfare Board Sijo P S, Assistant Engineer 9447869445 064 Manalur Team 5 O/o Assistant Engineer, LSGD, Vellangallur Grama Panchayat Sajan J Menon 064 Manalur Team 6 HSST Senior Computer 9447577580 I Govt. VHSS Puthenchira Praveen C 064 Manalur Team 7 Non Vocational Teacher 9539838080 GVHSS, Pazhanji A S lsmael 064 Manalur Team 8 HSST Computer Science 9446900576 G H S S MULLASSERY (HSS Section) Babu K V 064 Manalur Team 9 HSST Matayalam 906138?410 GOW MODEL HSS WADAKKANCHERY Justin Thomas,V, Senior Superintendent 058 Nattika Team 4 9947790056 Assistant Educationa I Office, Valappad (dio,r*rt (4og" [!"n"*rl 2()2'/, ("/iotz, (4, ,r,allrrr t,. .lTn r, i,l -VDtlr,.l 916 e Static Number and Name Name and Designation of Surveillance Mobile No. of LAC Executive Magistrate for SST Team No. T lManoj, 068 Nattika Team 5 Professor, 9447063339 College of Agricutture, Thrissur Abhijith Kumar V P, Agricuttural 068 Nattika Team 6 974s537493 Officer Krishi Bhavan Paralam Jayan K B, Section Officer 068 Nattika Team 7 8289852197 Directorate of Physical Plant, Vellanikkara Vijayan K, 068 Nattika Team 8 HSST Senior Se[ Gr Geography, 8921314060 GHSS PEECHT (HS SECTTON) Pushpakaran P R, 068 Nattika Team 9 Additional District Officer O/o DD ECONOMICS & 9446058515 STATISTICS 069 Muhamed Basheer K K, Team 4 9946764768 Kaipamangalam Govt. KKTM College, Pullut 069 Sabu P S Team 5 Audit Officer 9447614803 Kaipamangalam Joint Director of Kerata State Audit Ajirh P, 069 Superintendent 9447992887 Team 6 Kaipamangalam O/o Executive Engineer,KSEB Ltd. Etectrical Division, Kunnamkutam Unnikkutttan P 069 Assistant Professor Team 7 9495857705 Kaipamangalam lnstitute of Advanced Studies in Education, Thrissur Suresh Kumar C G 069 9446114973 Team 8 Non Vocationa[ Teacher (Sr) Kaipamangalam I GVHSS (BOYS) Wadakkanchery 069 Benny Mathew Team 9 SR Drug lnspector, O/o Assistant 9495490254 Kaipamangalam Drugs Control[er, Thrissur 01 The Nodal Officer for Election Expenditure Monitoring shall take necessary steps to identify boarder check posts of inter District and inter State to effectively deploy Static Surveillance Team and the team shall put check posts at Expenditure Sensitive pockets/hamlets, and shall keep watch on movement of (g/to ff1t r,".rrr.1 Qrlu.tz,t 2O2/, ti" (l, r rr* 11o r,rr ;lTo t, t .l/f,l4f"Z (4,g".'lC s illicit liquor, items of bribe, or large amount of cash, arms and ammunition and also movement of antisocial elements in their area. The entire process of checking shall be captured in videographed. 02. The Team shall send daily activity report (FORMAT 810) to Nodal Officer Election Expenditure Monitoring with copy to District Police Chief (City)/(Rural)/ General Observer / Expenditure Observer / Returning Officer / District Electlon Officer and to the Nodal Officer of Police (City)/(Rural) and Excise in Annexure C. 03. The checking by the SSTs shall be done in the presence of an Executive Magistrate and shall be vldeo-graphed. No such checking shall take place without the presence of Executive Magistrate. The video/CCTV record with an identification mark of date, place and team number shall be deposited with the concerned Returning Officer, on the next day who shall preserve the same for verification by the Commission at later point of time. 04. Nodal officer EEM shall ensure that whenever Check Posts are put at the borders of the district/State or at any other place by any agency, for any purpose, then the nearest SST shall be present there in such team, and to avoid duplication of checking in the area and reporting of seizure of cash or items of bribe has to be done by the SST. 05. Checking by SST on the major roads or arterial roads shall commence from the date of notification of election. The Nodal Officer EEM sha ll ensure to strengthen SST mechanism in last 72 Hrs. before the poll, particularly in vulnerable areas or in Expenditure sensitive pockets and during such period, the SST shall not be dismantled under any circumstances. The District Police Chief (City / Rural) shall take at most care in the activity. 06. The whole event of checking a nd seizu re is to be ca ptu red in a video/CCTV, which will be submitted to the Accounting Team after consultation with Returning Officer, every day. 07. lf any star campaigner is carrying cash up to Rs.1 Lakh, exclusively for his/her personal use, or any party functionary is carrying cash with certificate from the treasurer of the party mentioning the amount and its end use, then the authorities in SST sha ll retain a copy ofthe certificate and will not seize the cash. lf cash of more than 10 lakh is found in a vehicle and there is no suspicion of commission of any crime or linkage to any candidate or agent or party functionary, then the SST shall not seize the cash, and pass on the information to the lncome-Tax authority, for necessary action under lncome - Tax Laws. cf.t',.ri.,.,, Gln tx 6 lr //o,,o' . .,/4-al*t t,,/),,,, . '1,., , 1j'.,*-,/ 20! /, r* tr* ",; 08. The team constituted shall strictly comply the instructions given in Guidelines of Election commission of lndia and further instructions if any, in due course by E C l/ C E O from time to time. 09. During checking, if there is any suspicion of commission of crime, the seizure of cash or any item shall be done by the in charge police officer of the ssr as per provision of crPC in presence of the Executive Magistrate. The police officer in charge of ssr shall file complaint/FlR in the court, having jurisdiction, within 24 hou rs. 10. The team shall always be in liaise with Nodal officer for EEM, Assistant Expenditure observers, lncome Tax Nodal officer and Nodal officer for c vrerr. cvrGrl application is a newly introduced online application for citizens to report violation on Model code of conduct / Election expenditure during the period of election. lf the petitio n/com pla ints raised and forwarded from c vrcrl with a nature of Election expenditure violation shall immediately be processed. lf the nature of petition is to be escalated to higher authority, the same shall be done with report to Nodal Officer, Election expenditure Monitoring / Returning Officer without any delay. 1'1,. The assigned duties as static surveillance Team Executive Magistrate shall immediately be initiated from the date of Notification by Election commission of lndia on General Election to LA Constituencies Kerala, 2021. 12. The District Police chief Thrissur (Rural) / (city) shall take urgent steps to appoint three or more police personnel to assist the Executive Magistrate of Static Surveillance Team, being constituted as per this order. 13. considering the coVlD 19 pandemic, the District Medical officer shall take urgent necessary steps to provide vaccination to above appointed officers at the earliest. The Nodal officer, Training Management and District planning officer, Thrissur shall take steps to provide training for above deployed executive magistrates in due course of time with the assistance of state level master trainers.