{"id":22916,"date":"2024-04-29T05:32:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T00:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22916"},"modified":"2025-10-04T11:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:07:17","slug":"booth-capturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/booth-capturing\/","title":{"rendered":"Booth Capturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Booth Capturing:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Booth-capturing, defined in <strong>Section135A of the <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/representation-of-the-people-act-1950\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>RPA<\/strong><\/a>, includes all or any of the following activities by any person or persons:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Seizure of a polling station<\/strong>, affecting the conduct of elections;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Taking possession of a polling station<\/strong>, allowing only his or their supporters to vote;<\/li>\n<li>Intimidating or threatening any elector and preventing him from going to the polling station;<\/li>\n<li>Seizure of a counting place affecting the counting of votes;<\/li>\n<li>Involvement of any person in government service in any of the above activities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>is punishable<\/strong> for a term of <strong>not less than one year<\/strong>, which may extend to three years for lay people, and not less than three years, extending to <strong>five years for government servants.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In such cases the Election Commission of India, based on the material facts, may\n<ul>\n<li>Declare the poll at that polling station to be void and <strong>direct a fresh poll<\/strong> on a new date; or<\/li>\n<li>Countermand the election in the constituency in case booth capturing has taken place in a large number of polling stations, or if it has affected the counting of votes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Q1: What C-Vigil App?<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/c-vigil-app\/\" target=\"_blank\">C-Vigil App<\/a> is a mobile application developed by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to enable citizens to report violations of the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/model-code-of-conduct\/\" target=\"_blank\">Model Code of Conduct<\/a> (MCC) during elections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/repolls-election-commission-polling-process-9294027\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Expert Explains: What Election Commission can do if normal polling process is disrupted<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Booth Capturing  is defined  in Section 135A of the Representation of People Act, 1951<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}