Forward of elections, one BJP employee and two others had been detained with Rs 4 crore money by Tamil Nadu Police at Tambaram railway station in Chennai, as per the experiences.
The BJP member, recognized as S Sathish (33), alongside together with his brother Naveen (31) and one driver, Perumal (26), had been carrying Rs 4 crore in eight baggage, the report suggests, the flying squad group with police detained them after they had been set to journey to Tirunelveli by Nellai Specific prepare.
The report additional means that the group of Tirunelveli BJP MP candidate Nainar Nagenthiran instructed Sathish to achieve Tirunelveli with Rs 4 crore.
The police carried out search operations in Kilpauk, Triplicane, and Saligramam, in addition to the areas linked to Tirunelveli BJP candidate Nainar Nagendran. In keeping with the report, the passengers had saved the money at locations related to the BJP chief earlier than transporting it to Egmore railway station.
The police detained all three suspects and knowledgeable the earnings tax division. The IT groups will interrogate the accused now.
Presently, there’s an ongoing investigation to find out if the passengers had deliberate to distribute the money within the Tirunelveli Lok Sabha constituency earlier than the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The elections are scheduled to happen in seven phases beginning on April nineteenth.
Within the first section of the 2024 basic elections, voting in Tamil Nadu’s 39 constituencies is scheduled for April 19, with relying on June 4.
Because the Mannequin Code of Conduct (MCC) is presently in impact following the announcement of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Election Fee of India (ECI) has strictly talked about its tips for the politicians and their social gathering members.
Earlier, the ECI instructed the Union Ministry of Electronics and Info Expertise (MeitY) to instantly halt delivering Viksit Bharat messages on WhatsApp.
The ballot physique has additionally requested the Ministry to offer a compliance report on the topic, it added. The Fee claimed it had obtained a number of complaints alleging that even after the election outcomes had been introduced and the MCC went into impact, messages supposed to advertise the Central authorities’s actions underneath the Viksit Bharat Sampark had been nonetheless being delivered to residents’ telephones.