Budvel police on Monday formally requested Income Tax officials to investigate the source of the Rs. 4.95 lakh that was seized by personnel manning the TP Kunta check-post in Gopavaram mandal near Badvel in the Kadapa district late on Sunday night.
According to Budvel Inspector K Ullafaiah, the cash was being transported in a car which was stopped and checked by the police personnel at the check-post.
The car was being driven by a doctor, identified as Muralidhar, who was heading towards Wanaparthy from Nellore.
When questioned, the doctor claimed that he the money was part of an instalment that his friend Vijay Kumar was giving him as part of a loan repayment.
However, the replies did not satisfy the policemen, who demanded that the doctor produce the promisory note as evidence.
Ullafaiah stated that the doctor had managed to produce a promisory note that looked freshly-made and hastily created.
He added that the money and the promisory note were handed over to the Income Tax department for further investigations.
Earlier on April 12, police personnel seized around Rs. 55 lakh in cash from a man who is suspected to be close to an MLA from Nellore. The cash was being transported in a car which was stopped and checked by the police personnel at the check-post. The driver of the car, along with 2 more persons, was detained and interrogated.
A day earlier, another car searched at the Pipikunta check-post in Gopavaram mandal had yielded cash amounting to Rs. 28 lakhs. Police sources said that the driver of the car, identified as one Raghavendra, could not convince the police officials about the purpose behind transporting such a huge amount of cash. His claims that the cash was being taken to purchase iron ore was met with scepticism by the police officials. (INN)
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