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Nagaland Home Minister detained for carrying arms, cash

Updated on: 18 February,2013 12:08 PM IST  | 
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Nagaland Home Minister Imkong L Imchen was detained today after arms and Rs 1.10 crore cash was found in his vehicle.

Nagaland Home Minister detained for carrying arms, cash

Nagaland Home Minister Imkong L Imchen was today detained near Wokha district for allegedly carrying a cache of arms and ammunition and Rs 1.10 crore in cash in a vehicle, official sources said.


Imchen was going to his constituency Koridanga in Mokokchung district from Kohima when Assam Rifles personnel conducting search of vehicles near Wokha district found the arms and ammunition, liquor and cash, sources said.


The Assam Rifles personnel handed him over to the district administration and police. Imchen is the Nagaland People's Front (NPF) candidate from Koridanga and is also the NPF campaign in-charge of Mokokchung district.


The NPF has put up 10-candidates in Mokokchung district. On February 16, an Election Commission surveillance team had seized Rs 1 crore cash from a helicopter allegedly being used by a candidate of the Nagaland Peoples Front (NPF) in Nagaland.

A team of EC-appointed observers seized the cash from a chopper, which was allegedly hired to ferry Nyemli Phom, who is contesting the assembly polls from a constituency in Longleng district. u00a0

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