CISF nabs two passengers with Rs 15 lakh cash at Varanasi Airport

New Delhi: A CISF surveillance team at Varansi Airport on Sunday evening nabbed two men travelling from Kolkata with Rs 15 lakh in cash.

One SK Dutta and Swapan Pal were travelling from the Kolkata airport on an Air India flight with the large sum of cash money. Income Tax officials at the Kolkata Airport had suspected the two, but did not have enough time to alert security personnel there.

The IT sleuths subsequently sent information of the passengers' travel itinerary to the CISF team in Varanasi through their counterparts in Kolkata. The Central Industrial Security Forces personnel duly intercepted both Dutta and Pal and handed them over to IT-officials after a brief enquiry which led to the cash recovery.