Rs 57 lakh in bag, Trinamool MP is stopped at airport

New Delhi Just over a week after the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) directed the authorities to keep a “strict vigil” over “movement of cash” in view of the upcoming elections in West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Puducherry, a Trinamool Congress MP, Kanwar Deep Singh, was stopped and questioned at Delhi airport on Tuesday after cash adding up to Rs 57 lakh was found in his bag.
Singh, Rajya Sabha member and owner of the Rs 10,000-crore Alchemist Group, was stopped at the general aviation lounge of Terminal 1D at the Indira Gandhi International Airport after CISF officials found a large amount of cash while scanning his bag.
He was taken for questioning by officials of the Air Intelligence Wing of the Income-Tax department, who found Rs 57 lakh in the bag, said sources.
Singh, accompanied by seven others, was on his way to Guwahati in a private jet belonging to the GMR group, which had been hired by his Alchemist Group. After being questioned for over three hours, Singh was finally allowed to leave at 6.30 pm.
When contacted, Singh told The Indian Express: “It must have been a routine check, the I-T department wanted to check and they did their job.”
25/03/11 Geeta Gupta/Express India

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Categories: Airports Mar 2011