Nearly Rs 59 lakh was seized from a person who got down in Coimbatore from a bus coming from Chennai in the wee hours of Tuesday. Based on tip off, police kept vigil in the Thiruvallur Bus Stand and searched the baggage of 52-year old Abubacker and found the money, in the denomination of Rs 1,000, police said.
Nearly Rs 59 lakh was seized from a person who got down in Coimbatore from a bus coming from Chennai in the wee hours of Tuesday. Based on tip off, police kept vigil in the Thiruvallur Bus Stand and searched the baggage of 52-year old Abubacker and found the money, in the denomination of Rs 1,000, police said.
On interrogation, he said to have told police that a jeweller from Malappuram in Kerala had sent him to Chennai to collect the money and he was taking the money there. Suspecting this could be hawala transaction, the jeweller has been asked to come to the city for questioning.
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