8 accused have been arrested so far in BJP MLA ticket scam: Top cop

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: Bengaluru Police Commissioner B Dayananda on Thursday said that the police have seized valuables worth more than Rs 2 crore from Hindutva activist Chaitra Kundapura who is accused of cheating a businessman by promising to arrange a BJP ticket in the last assembly elections.

"We have seized valuables worth Rs 2 crore from Chaitra Kundapura, Rs 56 lakh cash from Abhinava Halasri, the chief pontiff of the Halasri Mutt in Vijayanagara, and Rs 20 lakh from another accused," he said.

The top cop also said that Chaitra Kundapura had kept Rs 65 lakh worth gold ornaments and Rs 40 lakh deposit in a co-operative bank in Udupi district.

Besides that, Rs 1.08 crore worth of property has also been found. The deposits in the bank were made in the name of Srikanth who is also arrested in the case.

They had bought agricultural land and she was building a house in Kundapura.

Srikanth was also building a house in Karkala with the money that he got after cheating Poojary, he said. So far eight persons have been arrested in the case and a probe is still underway, he said.