Noon meal centre employee suspended for campaigning for AIADMK

SALEM: A man working at a noon meal centre at Kakkampadi in poll bound Yercaud assembly constituency has been suspended for reportedly canvassing for the AIADMK candidate P Saroja.

District Collector K Magarabhusanam, who is the election officer, suspended the man on receipt of reports he had gone with her for campaigning in violation fo the model code and also on receiving photographic evidence, a press release said.

Meanwhile police last night seized 7.5 kg of silver anklets worth Rs 3.5 lakh from a car at a checkpost.

The two occupants of the car could not produce any document as proof to show that they were silver merchants and were taking the anklets for sale, they said.

Electoral authorities had announced that anyone carrying in excess of Rs 50,000 in cash in Yercaud, facing bypoll on Dec 4, should have valid documents. Otherwise, such amount would be confiscated for violation of poll code.