Over Rs 96 crore in cash, 14.27 lakh litres of liquor worth Rs 25.22 crore and more than 4,700 kg narcotics valued at Rs 19.83 crore have been seized, with the maximum from Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, by EC-appointed surveillance and expenditure monitoring teams in the five poll-bound States.
As per official data compiled since the announcement of polls early this month till on Saturday , UP has witnessed the maximum seizure of cash at Rs 87.67 crore followed by Rs 6.60 crore from Punjab, Rs 1.27 crore in Goa, Rs 47.06 lakh in Uttarakhand and Rs 8.13 lakh in Manipur.
In other illegal inducements suspected to be used to lure voters in these states, a whopping 14.27 lakh litres of liquor worth Rs 25.22 crore has been seized by Election Commission appointed police and state excise teams in these States.
In UP these seizures were recorded at 8.01 lakh litres worth Rs 20.62 crore followed by over five lakh litres spirits worth Rs 2.69 crore seized in Punjab, over 36,000 litres liquor worth Rs 93.91 lakh in Uttarakhand, 71,000 litres worth Rs 81.80 lakh in Goa and beer and other hard spirits worth Rs 15.14 lakh in Goa.