A government vehicle being used as a ‘flying squad’ for the ensuing 14th Nagaland Legislative Assembly election was detained for carrying ₹5 lakh unaccounted cash, a statement from Nagaland Police stated. The public servant who was using the car at the time of the seizure “could not give any satisfactory explanation” about the cash, it added.

Besides the ₹5 lakh, the combined enforcement agencies including Nagaland Police, SST, FST and CAPF Officers also made seizures of ₹1.5 lakh at Chazouba and 975 kgs of areca nuts and in some cases, IMFL were seized during a two hour state wide exercise of checking all government vehicles on road.

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The exercise was necessitated by inputs that some elements may either be using government vehicles or private vehicles with fake government number plates or stickers like ‘On Election Duty’ to vitiate the election process, the statement from the Police said.

It further added that the exercise was conducted to prevent misuse of any government vehicles for violation of the Mode Code of Conduct.

Further, Nagaland Police appreciated all government officers for “facilitating and cooperating during the exercise”.

This exercise will continue till the election process is over so that the elections are held in a free and fair manner, the department informed.