Kadapa, April 12: Badvel police on Monday seized Rs 27.90 lakh from a car at the PP Kunta checkpost in Kadapa district. Badvel CI Vusalaiah and his staff found the cash in a suitcase in a Maruti Swift coming from Nellore.
When they questioned the car owner Raghavendra Kumar (30), he reportedly gave contradictory replies, first claiming that there was only Rs 10 lakh in the suitcase and later when pressed further, hiking the figure up to Rs 18 lakh. He failed to produce proper documentation either forcing the police to open the suitcase in the presence of witnesses and count it. The cash, amounting to Rs 27.90 lakh, raised suspicions that it could have been meant for distribution among the voters in the district where bypolls are scheduled to be held on May 8. The police seized the cash and took Raghavendra, a native of Ponnur in Guntur district, into custody.
—Agencies