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By Sagay Raj: Money has been found to be growing on trees and a crore rupees travelling on an autorickshaw in poll-bound Karnataka.
The Income Tax department has seized one crore rupees from the house of Subramania Rai in Karnataka’s Mysore. Rai is the brother of Congress’s Puttur candidate Ashok Kumar Rai.
The officials on Wednesday seized the amount hidden in a box placed on a mango tree.
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The I-T department has conducted a string of raids in poll-bound Karnataka over the past few weeks.
The Bengaluru Police caught two men with Rs 1 crore unaccounted for cash. The recovery was made from an auto near the City Market area on April 13.
Since the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) is in place in Karnataka, moving a large sum of cash without proper documents is not permitted in the state.
Also last month, I-T teams conducted raids at the office of private real estate developer Ankita Builders and its owner Narayan Acharya’s residence in Hubballi.
The move came a day after the Income Tax department conducted raids at two residential premises of former Congress leader Gangadhar Gowda and an educational institution in Belthangady of Dakshina Kannada. The education institution belongs to Gangadhar Gowda’s son, Ranjan Gowda.
Gowda had quit the BJP and joined Congress in 2018. He recently announced his withdrawal from politics following the denial of a ticket for the Karnataka Assembly polls.
Karnataka goes to polls on May 10 and results will be out on May 13.
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