Officials of the Kerala state police and excise department were engaged in a routine vehicle check at the Walayar check post on the Coimbatore-Kerala border.
About Rs 25 lakh cash seized during check-post audit at Walayar on Tamil Nadu-Kerala border. The police are interrogating the man who was carrying a bundle of clothes.
Officials of the Kerala state police and excise department were engaged in a routine vehicle audit at the Walayar check post on the Coimbatore-Kerala border.
The officials then checked the Kerala government bus that was passing by. Lakshmi Nivas Eswanth (58), a resident of Perumbavoor in Ernakulam district, who was travelling in the bus, was suspicious. So they took him to the check-post room and interrogated him.
At that time, it was found that lakhs of rupees had been packed in bundles of shirts and dhotis and stitched into small packets.
A total of 24,78,500 have been seized from him. Officials are also investigating why he brought the money.
In this situation, a video of the inspection carried out at the checkpoints when Eswanth was carrying the money is being widely shared.