The Madras High Court on Thursday, April 18, 2024, recorded the submission of the Election Commission of India (ECI) that it would take further action on the seizure of ₹3.99 crore, from three passengers of a train bound to Tirunelveli from Chennai, after the police completes its investigation and files a final report.
Chief Justice Sanjay V. Gangapurwala and Justice J. Sathya Narayana Prasad also recorded the submission of ECI counsel Niranjan Rajagopalan that considering that amount of money, seized at the Tambaram railway station on April 7, was very large, the Income Tax Department too had been intimated about it.
The judges recorded the submissions and disposed of a writ petition filed by C.M. Raghavan, an independent candidate in the Tirunelveli Parliamentary constituency. The petitioner had insisted that the money belonged to BJP candidate Nainar Nagendran, and therefore, said that he must be disqualified.
