The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has seized unaccounted cash, documents, and digital devices during searches conducted at 16 locations across Rajasthan, Maharashtra, and Uttar Pradesh.
The anti-corruption vigilance wing of the Odisha Police, on Wednesday, made a seizure of around Rs 2 crore unaccounted cash acquired by unfair means from the residence of an officer in the predominantly tribal Malkangiri district.
The development comes amid paper leak and other irregularities found in 2024 NEET-UG examination for admission in medical colleges. Bihar was termed as epicenter of the scam.
The BJP on Tuesday denied allegations that its national general secretary Vinod Tawde was caught red-handed while distributing cash to voters at a hotel in Virar near Mumbai, more than 17 hours after campaigning for the Maharashtra Assembly election concluded.
The policeman was currently posted in the strategic crime branch.
Combined seizures in the two poll bound states mark a 3.5 time increase as compared to Assembly Election in 2019 when Maharashtra recorded seizures worth Rs. 103.61 crores while for Jharkhand, it was Rs. 18.76 crores.
On a monthly basis, the average ATM cash withdrawals in FY24 were higher compared to FY23 with withdrawals in 10 out of 12 months exceeding the FY23 monthly average of 7.23 per cent.
On Monday morning, a joint raid by Anti-Auto Theft Squad (AATS) Northeast and Jyoti Nagar police station was conducted on the 5th floor, of Harman Palace, Jyoti Nagar.
The packet consisting of two pistols, four magazines, 60 bullets, an IED, detonators, a battery with remote, and cash amounting to Rs.5 lakhs were found dropped in an agriculture field in the Vijaypur area near the international border with Pakistan.
Rajasthan's Anti-Corruption Bureau DG B L Soni said the case under the Prevention of Corruption Act lasts for at least three to five years and earlier, the complainant could not receive the money that he paid to the venal (bribed/corrupt) till the disposal of the case.
