{"id":9400,"date":"2026-04-05T23:20:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=9400"},"modified":"2026-04-05T23:20:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:20:44","slug":"130048249-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=9400","title":{"rendered":"EC seizes voter inducements worth over 650cr from poll-bound states, UT | India News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130048258,imgsize-1001301,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/image-ians.jpg\" alt=\"EC seizes voter inducements worth over 650cr from poll-bound states, UT\" title=\"Image: IANS \" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Potential voter inducements worth over Rs 650 crore have been seized by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/election-commission\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Election Commission<\/a> teams from the five poll-bound states\/UT so far, with West Bengal accounting for almost half of these seizures.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Since the electronic seizure management system (ESMS) was activated on Feb 26, 2026, flying squads and static surveillance teams have reported cumulative seizures worth Rs 319 crore in West Bengal, Rs 170 crore in Tamil Nadu, Rs 97 crore in Assam, Rs 58 crore in Kerala and Rs 7 crore in Puducherry.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>A category-wise breakup shows that freebies accounted for the largest percentage of seizures in terms of value (Rs 231 crore), followed by drugs (Rs 230 crore), liquor (Rs 79.3 crore), precious metals (Rs 58 crore) and cash (Rs 53.2 crore).<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>As per EC data on seizures made during the 2021 assembly polls, by April 16, 2021, when polling had concluded in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry and was half-way through in Bengal, their total value had crossed Rs 1,000 crore. Tamil Nadu topped the tally with seizures worth Rs 446.3 crore, followed by Bengal (Rs 300 crore), Assam (Rs 122 crore), Kerala (Rs 85 crore) and Puducherry (Rs 37 crore).<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/ec-seizes-voter-inducements-worth-over-650cr-from-poll-bound-states-ut\/articleshow\/130048249.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Potential voter inducements worth over Rs 650 crore have been seized by Election&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23617,724,23610,944,23609,23613,23615,723,719,720,721,23612,23616,722,23614,23611],"class_list":["post-9400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-assam-kerala-puducherry-2026-elections","tag-breaking-news","tag-ec-seizures-650-crore","tag-election-commission","tag-election-commission-voter-inducements","tag-esms-electronic-seizure-management-system","tag-freebies-drug-liquor-elections","tag-google-news","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-poll-bound-states-seizures-2026","tag-tamil-nadu-electoral-seizures","tag-today-news","tag-voter-inducements-values","tag-west-bengal-election-inducements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}