HYDERABAD: As the various political parties in the state pray for it to rain votes with the byelections round the corner, the poll-bound areas increasingly find themselves awash with cash, gold and silver.
On Friday, two-and-a-half kilos of gold worth Rs 65 lakh was recovered from a bus at the Nellore-Kadapa check post and two persons were taken into police custody. The duo had no documents or papers for the cargo they were ferrying and, sources said, cops were verifying whether the consignment was meant for distribution among voters in Kovur. Voters in seven Assembly constituencies - six of them in the Telangana region-will exercise their franchise on March 18.
In Mahbubnagar district alone, police have seized Rs 2.5 crore through searches at the various check posts which have been put up with an eye on preventing exactly this sort of thing but, despite claims of tight security and continuous police vigil, the flow of cash and gold continues unabated.
Acting on a tip-off, Mahbubnagar police carried out raids at Devarakadra and recovered Rs 10 lakh. "The money was meant for the district headquarters. The person driving the vehicle had no clear explanation as to why he was carrying the cash," a police official said.
Sources said the amount was for distribution among voters in Mahbubnagar where TRS and TDP are going all out for a win. In another raid, Rs 17.29 lakh in cash was seized from two cars at Devarakadra. Cops apprehended two persons and found Rs 10 lakh on them at Nizamabad district's Kammarapalli. A couple of days back 30 kilos silver worth Rs 17.5 lakh was seized at Gannaram check post in Dichpalli. Police said the silver and cash were meant for 'use' in Kamareddy.
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