The Election Commission-appointed expenditure monitoring teams and enforcement agencies have seized more than ₹64 crore in cash from the poll-bound States, including the maximum of ₹56.04 crore from Uttar Pradesh. The surveillance squads have also seized drugs and liquor in huge quantities. In Punjab, the expenditure monitoring teams have seized ₹8.17 crore, while ₹10 lakh was seized in Uttarakhand and ₹6.95 lakh in Manipur. Drugs worth ₹16.72 lakh were seized in Goa and contraband worth ₹7 lakh were impounded in Manipur. A total of 1.98 lakh litres of liquor worth ₹6.06 crore was seized from various places in Uttar Pradesh. The enforcement agencies recovered about 10,646 litres of liquor worth ₹17.54 lakh from Punjab. — Special Correspondent
