Hyderabad: Hyderabad police seized Rs One crore and arrested two persons on Sunday at Begumpet in Hyderabad. The Task Force police in a press conference on Sunday said the seized amount of Rs. One crore is an unaccounted cash from the brother-in- law of BJP contesting candidate M. Raghunandan Rao, on the last day of campaigning for the Dubbaka Assembly by-poll.

The task force officials alleged that the cash was meant to be distributed among voters ahead of the Dubbaka by-elections on November 3^rd, the BJP denied it completely, saying it was the TRS game plan to defame the party. Acting on a specific tip- off, police seized Srinivasa Rao’s car, brother-in- law of Raghunandan Rao near Begumpet flyover while he was transporting the money. On enquiry, it has been revealed that the said amount was collected by Srinivasa Rao from Begumpet in order to deliver it at Dubbaka for distributing among the voters, said Hyderabad CP Anjani Kumar.

CP also said that Srinivasa Rao confessed that the manager of a company, belonging to a former member of Parliament, handedover the cash to him to transport from Hyderabad to Dubbaka. CP said the information was found in the mobile phone of the accused and the seized cash were handedover to Begumpet police, who were questioning them. The seized cash is going to be submitted in the local Court, he said.