Recently, CBI has raided three areas in Vellore. The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday carried out hunts at three locations in Tamil Nadu's Vellore at the juncture with the cash for votes case during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections that had led to the dissolution of polls in this constituency, officials stated. A CBI executive stated that agency sleuths carried out searches at the premises of M. Dayanidhi, the then senior manager of Canara Bank, Vellore branch, and two private persons, identified as Damodaran and Srinivasan, in relation with the case.
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The executive stated that all three have been named in the FIR registered on September 22, on the basis of "reliable information", related to the recovery of Rs 11.48 crore in newly-printed Rs 200 notes by the Income Tax department on April 1, 2019, from the cement godown of Damodaran. The notes were issued from the currency chest of the Canara Bank branch. In its FIR, the CBI alleged that Srinivasan, a relative of Damodaran, had avowedly declared that this cash was his own and was meant for distribution to voters in Vellore constituency during the parliamentary elections scheduled on April 18, 2019.
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After receiving information from tax authorities, the Election Commission had canceled the election. The CBI alleged that it is known that the cash, in the bundles of Rs 200 denomination, was obtained from Canara Bank's currency chest in exchange for other currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 2,000 denomination. Tamil Nadu's Vellore city is one of the most developed cities in the state.
