Rs 1.5 Crore in Cash Seized From TTV Dinakaran’s Partyman in Tamil Nadu Day Before Polls

The Income Tax Department seized Rs 1.48 crore in cash allegedly stashed to bribe voters in Tamil Nadu’s Theni district during an overnight raid that concluded on Wednesday morning. Bye-polls to the Andipatti Assembly seat and the Theni Lok Sabha seat are scheduled on Thursday.

The cash was packed in 94 packets and envelops on which the ward number, number of voters and the amount of Rs 300 per voter was written, said I-T Director General (investigations) B Murali Kumar said. “All these wards are within the Andipatti Assembly segment which is going to bye-polls tomorrow,” he told PTI.

Kumar said the store from where the cash was seized belonged to a functionary of TTV Dinakaran-led Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam. The AMMK party office functions from the ground floor of the premises, he said.