A case has been registered against BJP Lok Sabha seeker for Chikkaballapur, Dr. K Sudhakar, for allegedly asking a poll official to release Rs4.8 crore of unaccounted-for cash seized by the State Election Commission(SEC). The FIR was filed on Thursday at the Madanayakana Halli police station in Bengaluru Rural.
As per a copy of the FIR seen by DH, the complaint from Dasharatha V.Kumbar of the Static Surveillance Team(SST) claimed that after Rs4.8 crore was seized, district Model Code of Conduct(MCC) nodal officer Munish Moudgil, at around 2:04 pm on April 25th, received a WhatsApp call.
"The caller identified himself as Shri Sudhakar and requested that he should be helped in this cash seizure, "Kumbar alleged in the police complaint. The IAS officer also entered three posterior WhatsApp messages from the same phone number "Madhavara Govindappa IT Team", Pls help I'll be very thankful to you. Regards", and "9945141601 Anand Ratkal" (in Kannada).
The plaintiff said that the same day, between 11.44 and 11.48 am, Moudgil received a complaint that Rs10 crore was kept at a location to entice voters and misuse it during the polls. The EC officials and Income duty(IT) sleuths latterly set up Rs4.8 crore cash at a house in Madavara village within the Chikkaballapur Lok Sabha segment.
"Prima facie it's set up that the cash was kept to distribute to voters as a fix and misuse it," the FIR noted. Kumbar said that formerly Moudgil had entered the lead about the unaccounted-for cash and the location, he'd informed Anand Ratkal(IRS), who's the IT nodal officer for Bengaluru Urban district, as per the directions of the Election Commission of India(ECI), to follow the Standard Operating Procedure(bribe), examine the premises and take action as per the law.
Sudhakar has been reserved under IPC Sections 171E(punishment for bribery), 171F(punishment for overdue influence or personation at an election),171B(bribery), 171C(overdue influence at choices), and 123(loose practices) of the Representation of the People(RP) Act.
