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In UP also, administration is acquiring private vehicles by sending notices to owners. It's unclear whether they are picking up vehicles on the road and whether out-of-state SUVs are being targeted.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/citie...038579900.html

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Originally Posted by hothatchaway

Requisitioning vehicles for election duty comes under a central act (section 160 of Representation of the people Act of 1951) it is not some khap diktat which runs uniquely in the state of West Bengal and can be invoked anywhere in India if the election machinery has a paucity of vehicles to run polling operations....

For those who are still panicking from what they read on social media, there is also this 2009 Calcutta HC ruling which forbids privately owned vehicles from being signed up for election duty

"Last month, Lalbazar had asked all 48 police stations in the city to lay off private vehicles during the requisition drive to avoid violating the 2009 Calcutta High Court ruling in the Sachin Haldar SUV case.

The court had ordered a day’s “civil imprisonment” of the then Canning sub-divisional officer for requisitioning Haldar’s Tata Safari against his wishes and return of the vehicle to its owner. "

https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-...ar/cid/1276172

As Charles Dickens had once famously said "the law is an arse", it is upto us to be well informed about our rights. Such harebrained laws are everywhere, including the legendary odd/even rule in NCR

Thank You for sharing this information. This puts my own doubts at ease.

Here is the archive link of the news article :

https://web.archive.org/web/20240513...ar/cid/1276172

https://archive.is/C2NXl