A team of Income Tax officials and the Election Commission's static surveillance team searched the house of DMK Lok Sabha candidate K. Kanimozhi in Thoothukodi in Tamil Nadu, an official said.

Kanimozhi, a Rajya Sabha member, is contesting the April 18 Lok Sabha poll against the BJP's state unit chief Tamilisai Soundararajan.

--IANS

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