Cash-carrying TC MP let off after questioning

Kanwar Deep Singh, the RS MP from Jharkhand told CISF officials that money belonged to his company Alchemist Group.

PTI | March 25, 2011



A Trinamool Congress MP was stopped at the Indira Gandhi International airport here after he was found carrying Rs 57 lakh but was later allowed to go after he informed authorities that the money belonged to his company, sources said here today.

Kanwar Deep Singh, the Rajya Sabha MP from Jharkhand and owner of Alchemist Group, was stopped after CISF officials found that he was carrying a large amount of money, the sources said. He was on his way to Guwahati.

The CISF officials informed Air Intelligence Unit of the Income Tax department, who found that he was carrying Rs 57 lakh, they said. He was accompanied by seven others in a private plane.

Sources said Singh was allowed to go after questioning after he informed the officials that the money belonged to his company.

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