Karnataka bypolls: Rs 20 lakh found in a car, seized

The Chamarajnagar police seized unaccounted cash worth more than Rs 20 lakh from a private person's car on Friday. Police officers who have stepped up the vigil for the April 9 bypoll in Gundlupet and Nanjangud found more than Rs 20 lakh in new Rs 2,000 currency notes stashed in a car belonging to a person identified as Manoj.

Police searched the car that was parked in Hotel Gateway Karnataka in Gundlupet following a tip-off and found the money. Manoj, a native of Hubballi has been detained for carrying unaccounted cash while model code of conduct is in force for the bypolls. It is unclear if the money that was found was being utilised for corrupt electoral practices.

The seizure comes a day after Karnataka Mahila Congress president Laxmi Habbalkar landed in a controversy over a video purportedly showing her distributing money to voters emerged from Gundlupet.

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