IT arrests, seizes Rs 43 lakh in cash from man at Shahpura

Sleuths of Income Tax department on Tuesday arrested a youth and seized Rs 43 lakh in cash from him at Shahpura near Jaipur, an official said.

Mahendra Singh, a resident of Jhunjhunu, who did not disclose any information about the huge cash amount and its owner, was being interrogated, he said.

The accused was on way to board a car after alighting from a bus when the sleuths frisked him in view of election surveillance, the official said, adding a case under Section 132 of IT Act (search and seizure) has been registered.

In another checking drive, a police team recovered 2,064 pouches of illegal liquor from a supplier Pooran Sansi at Sanganer area in Jaipur. A case has been registered against him in this regard, the official said.