₹3.37 crore cash, 8.6 kg gold seized by poll officials in Bengaluru

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PTI | | Posted by Yamini C S

Election duty officials on Tuesday seized 8.6 kg of gold worth ₹1.47 crore and cash of ₹3.37 crore in Bengaluru.

Around 47,030 litres of liquor was also seized.(PTI Photo/For representative purposes)

In its daily bulletin, the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Karnataka said the flying squad and police seized gold worth ₹1.47 crore in C V Raman Nagar constituency whereas the Income Tax Department seized ₹3.37 crore cash in Padmanabha Nagar constituency. This besides, 47,030 litres of liquor was seized.

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Cumulatively, cash worth ₹17.36 crore, 3.28 lakh litres of liquor worth ₹22.35 crore, 82.85 kg drugs worth ₹42.66 lakh, 22.691 kg gold worth ₹8.51 crore and 93.563 kg silver worth ₹65.19 lakh and freebies worth ₹11.79 crore were seized.

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The worth of total seizures made by all the teams together since the Model Code of Conduct came into effect includes cash, material, liquor, drug, etc of about ₹61 crore, the bulletin said.

Karnataka goes to polls on May 10.

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