Poll seizures in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal cross Rs 1,000 crore markEnforcement authorities have seized over Rs 1000 crore in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu. This includes cash, drugs, liquor, and precious metal...
22 Apr, 2026, 06.28 PM IST
West Bengal polls: ECI flags 55 seats as 'expenditure sensitive'West Bengal faces heightened election scrutiny. The Election Commission has marked 55 constituencies as expenditure sensitive. This year, 1...
20 Apr, 2026, 12.36 AM IST
EC seizes over Rs 650 crore in voter inducementsElection Commission teams have seized over Rs 650 crore in potential voter inducements. West Bengal leads with nearly half the seizures. Fr...
06 Apr, 2026, 07.14 PM IST
Assembly polls: Rs 650 crore worth illicit cash, liquor seized; nearly half from West BengalElection authorities have seized over 650 crore rupees in illegal cash, drugs, and liquor across West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam, an...
05 Apr, 2026, 05.16 PM IST
Enforcement agencies seize ₹181 crore in West Bengal ahead of pollsWest Bengal has seen cumulative seizures worth Rs 181.31 crore, including cash, liquor, and narcotics, ahead of assembly polls. The Electio...
23 Mar, 2026, 12.37 AM IST
Lok Sabha polls: Inducements worth Rs 8,889 crore seized; drugs contribute 45 pc of total seizuresAuthorities seized cash, drugs, and inducements worth Rs 8,889 crore, including narcotics, precious metals, and liquor, with operations by ...
18 May, 2024, 06.23 PM IST
Rs 141 crore worth poll inducements seized in Andhra Pradesh so far: CEOAndhra Pradesh has seen record-breaking seizures of Rs 141 crore since the poll schedule announcement, doubling the value from the 2019 ele...
23 Apr, 2024, 07.07 PM IST
More than 1,000 FIRs filed in poll-bound Karnataka as seizures top Rs 126 croreThe seizures include cash (Rs 47 crore), liquor (Rs 29 crore), precious metals (Rs 20 crore), freebies (Rs 17 crore) and drugs/narcotics (R...
11 Apr, 2023, 08.12 PM IST
Guj Assembly polls: Cash, drugs, liquor worth over Rs 290 cr seized; seizures over 10 times made in 2017According to the Election Commission, its planning and monitoring through various enforcement agencies have led to record seizures during t...
30 Nov, 2022, 06.57 PM IST
Record cash, liquor seized as Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat go to polls: ECGujarat witnessed seizures of Rs 71.88 crore in just a few days after the announcement of the election, which surpassed the seizures made d...
11 Nov, 2022, 03.19 PM IST
Over Rs 1000 crore worth of cash, drugs, liquor, freebies seized during assembly polls in 5 statesThe total seizures in the five states were over Rs 1,018 crore, a nearly four-fold increase over the total seizures of Rs 299.84 crore made...
25 Feb, 2022, 09.18 PM IST
Assembly polls: Cash, liquor seizure go through the roof in 2017"The surveillance teams are, however, on their toes to thwart these efforts as much as possible," a senior Income Tax department official, ...
26 Feb, 2017, 01.56 PM IST
Polls: Maximum cash, liquor seizures in Uttar Pradesh; drugs in PunjabThere has been no cash and illicit liquor seizure in Goa and Uttarakhand till now while Manipur has had no liquor seizure even as UP saw no...
18 Jan, 2017, 12.12 PM IST
Andhra tops list of cash and booze seizures during pollsLiquor seizures in Andhra Pradesh almost doubled over the last 12 days, from 77.7 lakh litres on April 23 to 1.34 crore litres on May 5.
07 May, 2014, 12.03 PM IST
Lok Sabha polls 2014: Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat top in liquor seizuresWith EC tying up with IT authorities to tighten the screws on black money flow, cash seizures too have touched Rs 320 crore.
28 Apr, 2014, 11.12 AM IST
Lok Sabha Polls 2014: Andhra, Gujarat lead in liquor seizures during pollsGujarat together with Daman and Diu, ranks next to Andhra Pradesh for seizure of liquor during polls, with 23 lakh litres confiscated so fa...
24 Apr, 2014, 01.25 PM IST
UP tops in cash seizures, Punjab in drugs and liquor in pollsUttar Pradesh saw the maximum amount of cash being seized during restrictions imposed in the run up to the assembly elections in five state...
05 Mar, 2012, 10.50 PM IST