Madurai: Rural police arrested four AIADMK functionaries for attempting to bribe voters in different places and seized Rs 1,14,950 from them in Madurai on Wednesday. Rs 81,000 was seized from Jeevanthan who hid it inside the refrigerator at his relative's house in Periyavagaikulam.
The police also arrested another AIADMK functionary Velpandi from Solampatti village and seized Rs 31,700 from him. The Kadupatti police caught two party functionaries — Bose and Selvam — red-handed when they tried to distribute money to the voters at Kuruviturai village.
The police remanded the four under judicial custody. Meanwhile the SP Vijayendra Bidari also formed additional 133 mobiles teams to keep a close vigil in the villages on poll cash to be distributed to voters.
