Officials said Flying Squad personnel of Bhavanisagar constituency stopped a car near Punjai Puliampatty village, 80 km from here this morning and seized Rs 4.09 lakh cash.
The driver, a vegetable wholesale merchant from Ernakulam, claimed he was proceeding to Mysore to give the money to vegetable farmers there, from whom he had purchased vegetables. But he could not account for the cash and so it was seized.
In Palliyuthu village 20 km from here, the squad stopped a mini lorry coming from Muthur area and seized Rs 1. 29 lakh cash from one Balasubramani.