'Cash rain' during ED raids in Punjab's Mohali, bags filled with Rs 500 notes thrown from luxury high-rise leaves morning walkers shockedDuring an Enforcement Directorate raid in Mohali, individuals in a luxury high-rise threw bags of cash from a ninth-floor window. The incid...
08 May, 2026, 03.56 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
CBI arrests deputy DGCA, senior executive of corporate group in drone import bribery caseThe CBI has apprehended a senior official from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation and a top executive from Asteria Aerospace. The ar...
19 Apr, 2026, 10.14 PM IST
Higher cash seizures being recorded by I-T dept every assembly polls: CBDTCash seizures during assembly elections have substantially increased, according to CBDT Chairman Nitin Gupta. The Income-tax department is ...
04 Feb, 2024, 02.45 PM IST
Rajasthan Assembly Elections: Poll 'freebies' worth Rs 200 crore seized since model code came into forceThe Rajasthan Police has confiscated election-related "freebies" valued at Rs 200 crore since the implementation of the Model Code of Condu...
28 Oct, 2023, 12.53 PM IST
Ahead of Assembly elections in Rajasthan, Rs 244 crore cash seized in last 15 daysAccording to officials, this year there has been a three-fold increase in the total seizure, which was Rs 322 crore in 2021, Rs 347 crore i...
24 Oct, 2023, 07.32 PM IST
ED seizes over Rs 133-cr worth funds of ex-Odisha MLA in money laundering caseThe action came after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) carried out raids at various offices and residential premises of Patnaik and his rel...
12 May, 2022, 01.14 PM IST
Cash, liquor bribe to voters in five assembly polls at record high of Rs 1,000 crore, says ECAn Election Commission "progressive" report, which will get updated as the remaining phases of poll are conducted, said the maximum Rs 446....
16 Apr, 2021, 08.24 PM IST
Polls: EC teams seize over Rs 1,400 cr worth cash, liquor and drugs from statesThis was followed by seizure of illegal inducements, suspected to have been routed and used to bribe voters, from Tamil Nadu at Rs 208.55 c...
01 Apr, 2019, 10.19 PM IST
Election Commission ropes in intelligence heads for financial monitoringCommittee to track fund generation, its movement and distribution as bribe to influence voters.
12 Mar, 2019, 10.16 AM IST
Election Commission plans early checks on illegal cash flowsEC has even been mulling proposals to cap party expenditure per election and rationalise candidate spending.
25 Jan, 2019, 09.17 AM 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
Ahead of polls, surveillance teams seize Rs 88 crore cash in Tamil NaduThe seizure is the maximum among the five election-bound states from where a whopping Rs 147 crore has been seized till now.
10 May, 2016, 03.51 PM IST
Election Commission crackdowns on illegal fund movement in poll-bound BiharNine illegal arms manufacturing units were also busted in a raids conducted throughout the day by the watchdog, an EC official said.
12 Sep, 2015, 08.33 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
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