Police have seized rs.15 lakh unaccounted cash from a person traveling to Kerala from Pollachi and handed over to the
Income Tax Department.


According to the police, during night rounds police carried out a search on the passengers in a bus in Pollachi Stand going to Kerala late last night and found one person possessing the cash without valid documents.


He was identified as Mohammed Abdullah of Pudukottai and further interrogation revealed that he was given the money by one Basheer to be handed over to Faizal in Thrissur in Kerala, they said.


Suspecting that the money could be part of a hawala transaction, police handed over the cash and the person to the Income tax department.