Crores In Cash Seized At Pune Toll Booth Ahead Of Elections; Sanjay Raut Slams Government (Photo @@rautsanjay61)
Pune Rural Police on Monday seized Rs 5 crore in cash during a Nakabandi at the Khed Shivapur toll booth. The seizure of the money in the election-bound state has raised concerns, and the investigation is going on in the presence of officials from both the Election Commission and Income Tax Department at Rajgad police station. Maharashtra is going to the polls on November 20 to elect 288 assembly members amid stiff political competition; the electoral exercise marks the first Assembly polls after the split of NCP and Shiv Sena, and the BJP and Congress appears to be in renewed vigour.
The cash was seized from a car late evening and was handed over to the Income Tax Department officials for further investigation, news agency ANI reported, quoting Pankaj Deshmukh, Pune Rural SP. Upon receiving information, the officials reportedly stopped a suspicious car, finding the huge amount in cash.
Maharashtra | Pune Rural Police seized cash at Khed Shivapur toll booth during a Nakabandi late evening on 21st October. Officials of Election Commission and Income Tax department are present at Rajagad police station for investigation. Cash could be in crores, counting being…
— ANI (@ANI) October 22, 2024
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Reacting to the development, Shiv Sena UBT leader Sanjay Raut, part of the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance, which includes Congress, Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena, and Sharad Pawar-led NCP, attacked the Shinde-led government.
“15 crore found in the car of an MLA from the Mindhe tribe at the village Shivapur toll booth! Who is this MLA? what a bush What a mountain…. Mindhe sent 75 crores to each candidate for the election This first installment of 15 crores! what bapu.. How much are these boxes?,” reads a rough translation of the Rajya Sabha MP’s post on X.
मिंधे टोळीतील एका आमदाराच्या गाडीत खेड शिवापूर टोल नाक्यावर १५ कोटी सापडले!
हे आमदार कोण?
काय झाडी…
काय डोंगर….
मिंधे यांनी निवडणुकीसाठी प्रत्येक उमेदवारास ७५ कोटी पाठवले
१५ कोटी चा हा पहिला हप्ता!काय बापू..
किती हे खोके?
@ECISVEEP
@AmitShah
pic.twitter.com/tb7DuPWV3W— Sanjay Raut (@rautsanjay61) October 21, 2024
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The EC announced the schedule for the elections in the 288 member assembly constituencies in Maharashtra. The MVA is working to wrest back the state from the BJP-backed Eknath Shinde-led government.
Jharkhand assembly elections will also be held along with Maharashtra in two phases, and the result for both the states will be declared on November 23.
