£4.2 mn recovered from Bengaluru house

More than £4.2 million in cash was found hidden in 22 boxes under a bed at a house in Bengaluru.  The cash was recovered following income tax raids on a former woman corporator and her husband. Telangana's Finance Minister Harish Rao has now linked the seizures to election funding in his state. The Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader claimed the money had been collected from builders, gold businesses and contractors in the name of Telangana tax and was part of £150 million being sent in from the neighbouring state to fund the Congress election campaign in the state led by Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao. "They are trying to pump money into Telangana to win the election here. They are even selling tickets. But they won't win here," Harish Rao alleged.