Despite several measures being adopted by the Election Commission of India to put check on use of money power in the election, candidates of various political parties and Independent candidates are still using money power to win the election.
The Vikasnagar Assistant Returning Officer Arvind Pandey said that police had seized around Rs15 lakh from three persons using three different vehicles after they failed to show relevant documents in Herbertpur area on Wednesday.Dehradun Police also seized about Rs5.50 lakh at Bindal Bridge police post from Mohammad Aarif, resident of Vasant Vihar on Thursday morning.
Dehradun chief treasury officer Jagat Singh Chauhan said that as per Election Commission of India’s guidelines, election officers and police officers have been directed to conduct vehicle checking campaign on various roads to put check on use of black money by the political parties during ongoing lok Sabha election.On April 19, Dehradun police had conducted vehicle checking at Asharodi police check post and seized around Rs 12 lakh from T Ahmed, resident of Tagoreviila. Ahmed had failed to submit relevant documents to the police.
On April 21, police had seized Rs 6.25 lakh at Nanda Chowki from Vinod Kumar Thapa, resident of Haripur, Selaqui. At Asharodi police check post, the police had seized Rs8 lakh from lakshman Chowk resident Rajesh Chaurasia who had failed to show relevant documents on April 22.The police had seized Rs3 lakh from Pankaj Swaroop at Ring Road check post in Raipur on April 22.
On April 23, the police seized Rs 6 lakh from SK Arora, native of Haryana at Herbertpur check post. On April 23, police seized Rs 7.7 lakh from Dakpathar resident Nasir Hussain at Herbertpur check post.