its being taken by hand. it looks like. otherwise they wont touch it.
I'm not saying that they are cheating on that. BUT, if they do, the person who holds that knows whether he cheats or not. same for the monk too.
A monk, and a set of elder people. Those are the part of the society that we should be respecting as the younger generation in the society.
But its very disappointing to see something like that being conducted by those people specially.