Noida: Amid imposition of the model code of conduct for Lok Sabha polls, Rs 3.80 lakh cash was seized from a man during a checking campaign in Greater Noida, as total such seizures reached Rs 31.15 lakh in the constituency ahead of polls, officials said Saturday.
The seizure was made around 1 am and the man from whom the cash was recovered is a resident of Muzaffarnagar district, the police said.
The car he was driving bears a registration number of Ghaziabad but the man was unable to properly explain the source of the cash, the police said.
"In view of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, during the checking campaign today a flying squad team of Dadri and Badalpur police stations intercepted a car at the Dhoom Manikpur underpass," a police spokesperson said.
"Rs 3,80,000, which is more than that permitted by Election Commission (during MCC), has been recovered from the possession of Bilal Mohammad, a resident of Budhana area in Muzaffarnagar district," the spokesperson said.
Further legal proceedings in the case are being carried out, the police said. A senior officer told PTI that so far Rs 31.15 lakh in cash have been seized across Noida and Greater Noida in Gautam Buddh Nagar from the date of imposition of the model code of conduct till Saturday.
Earlier this week, a flying squad had seized around Rs 10 lakh cash from a doctor in Badalpur area and Rs 11.58 lakh from the car of a Delhi resident on the Eastern Peripheral Expressway in Greater Noida, according to officials.
While both Muzaffarnagar and Gautam Buddh in western Uttar Pradesh will go to polls on April 26, some parts of the state also have elections scheduled on April 19.
