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Cash recovered from a hotel in Assam’s Nagaon district

| @indiablooms | Apr 16, 2019, at 10:16 am

Guwahati, Apr 16 (IBNS): Ahead of the second phase of Lok Sabha elections, the police and flying squad team of the Election Commission of India (ECI) recovered Rs 14.94 lakh cash from a hotel in central Assam’s Nagaon district last night.

According to the reports, the police and flying squad team had launched operation at Ten Eleven hotel at Nagaon town and recovered the cash amount in possession from two persons identified as Jiten Goswami and Shakil Ahmed.

Police detained the persons and also recovered some documents of a Congress candidate.

The second phase polls for five Lok Sabha seats in Assam- Karimganj, Silchar, Autonomous District, Nowgong and Mangaldoi- will be held on Apr 18.

(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)

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