Nalgonda district police on Sunday seized Rs. 3.04 crore from two persons, suspected to have been engaged by a ‘hawala’ operator for smuggling money from Hyderabad to Chennai, after a chase.
The currency bundles, all of Rs. 500 denomination, were hidden inside specially made secret chambers beneath the seats. Three inter-district check-posts were set up in the district as per the Election Commission of India’s guidelines in the backdrop of ensuring Assembly elections.
“A white car did not stop when our police team waved them to stop at Madugulapally toll-gate check-post in the early hours of Sunday,” SP Apoorva Rao told The Hindu. On being told about this, Miryalguda DSP Venkatagiri swung into action alerting all the police teams deployed across the district, the SP said.
