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Minister’s house raided in Nagaland

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Kohima:A team of Nagaland vigilance com-mission and Anti-Corrup-tion Cell raided the reside-nce of State Minister for Agriculture Benjongliba Aier for allegedly with-drawing Rs 60,00,000 from a Horticulture Department’s account, officials said here on Saturday.
Stating that the raid is in connection with scams in operating a bank account of the Mission Director (Horticulture Mission – NE) even after Aier remitted his office in 2012 and got elected in the 2013 state Assembly elections.
The raid was conducted at his private as well as official residences in Kohima at Old Ministers’ Hill yesterday but the minister was not arrested as he has secured an antici-patory bail.
The minister was not available for comments. Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Tokheho Yepthomi had last month said that Nagaland’s Assembly elections were announced on January 11, 2013, and the Model Code of Conduct came into force simultaneously.
The retired director of horticulture and mission director horticulture tech-nology mission, Dr Benjon-gliba filed his nomination on February 4, 2013.
The CLP leader said but he continued to operate so-called the Department account and withdrew Rs 60,00,000 cash by Self Cheque on three occasions even after Code of Conduct came into force proving the same from the account statement through his statement in the local media.  (PTI)

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