Udupi to have 25 Sakhi booths: All woman polling booths.

April 9: Deputy Commissioner and District Election Officer Hephsiba Rani Korlapati said that Udupi will have 25 Sakhi—all woman polling booths. Each Assembly constituency will have five Sakhi booths.
There are three polling booths completely managed by persons with disabilities and one ethnic polling booth, she explained. Along with this 70 web castings are arranged.
Rs 23,50,290 lakh cash was seized in 13 cases that were reported in connection with the violation of poll code of conduct. All the seized amount has been released after the verification. About 15809.86 litres of liquor were seized by the Excise Department and another 11.70 litres were seized by the Police Department. Nearly 112 cases were registered under cVigil applications, out of which 77 complaints are inquired and disposed of. Remaining are considered to be fake. She added that 3,695 weapons are surrendered and nine are exempted. Polling officials who belong to the Christian community are exempted from election duty following the representation by the community to Election Commission.