NELLORE: Two town police on Thursday seized Rs 1 crore cash, which was unaccounted for, from the house of TDP leader and former corporator of Nellore municipal corporation, K Omprakash, here on Thursday.
According to SP, B V Ramana Kumar, based on a reliable information, Two Town SI, Kishore Babu along with his men conducted a flash raid on the house of former corporator and found bundles of cash amounting to Rs 1 crore in a closed room of the house.
Unaccounted cash amounting to Rs. One crore in was
seized from the residence of a Telugu Desam Party leader P. Omprakash
Yadav at Mypadu Gate here on Thursday morning by the special squad for
the Kovur Assembly by-election.
Related to MLA
Mr.
Omprakash Yadav, who is brother-in-law of TDP MLA Beeda Mastan Rao
(Kavali), said he was not present when officials began the raid. Mr.
Yadav claimed that he had received it as token advance towards sale of
seven acres land owned by him at Gangapatnam. Mr. Yadav further said
that he was into real estate business and he had nothing to do with the
Kovur by-poll.
Police officials said with the latest case, the amount seized so far with regard to Kovur by-poll was put at Rs. 2.14 crore.
The squad raided the
house on the orders of Collector B. Sridhar and Superintendent of Police
B.V. Ramana Kumar. This followed a tip-off that Mr. Yadav, a former
corporator, had a large amount of cash in his house.
Although
the house does not fall under Kovur constituency limits, the
authorities went ahead as part of a vigil on the residences of leaders
of various political parties.
Video footage sought
Special
Correspondent from Hyderabad adds: Chief Electoral Officer Bhanwar Lal
directed the Collector to send the video footage of the counting of
currency notes, for proper verification of the amount so that he would
submit a report to the Election Commission. The cash would be handed
over to the I-T Department, he added.
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