MALAPPURAM: The Perinthalmanna police on Friday arrested two persons and seized Rs 1.1 crore from them. The currency notes in Rs 2,000 and 500 were concealed in a storage inside their car. The arrested were identified as Mujeeb Rahman of Malappuram and Mohammed Basheer of Thrissur. They were stopped by the special police squad at Jubilee Road in the town following a tip-off. The car was also taken into custody.
The police said that the arrested were only carriers hired for bringing the money from Coimbatore and were not aware of the exact source. Further interrogation will be done by the Income Tax officials from Palakkad. In the last three months, the police had seized around unaccounted money worth Rs 6 crore, including banned notes of Rs 1,000 and 500 from Perithalmanna. As many as 11 persons had also been arrested in connection with separate cases.
