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Mystery cash trails lead to Puttaparthi

BANGALORE: A day after Bagepalli police arrested a man and seized Rs 35 lakh, which was believed to be spirited out of Puttaparthi, the Anantapur police on Sunday morning recovered at least Rs 5 crore stuffed in two gunny bags from a government-owned Puttaparthi-Bangalore Volvo bus. Police detained two Tamil Nadu-based men and took them to a secret location in Anantapur for interrogation. The two were trying to take away the cash in the guise of passengers. Sources said the money was seized at Kothacheruvu, 12km from Puttaparthi and 145km from Bangalore. Acting on a tip-off, police stopped the Bangalore-bound bus at Kothacheruvu and recovered the gunny bags loaded with currency notes. Police detained two men and took them to Anantapur along with the money, sources said. Police suspect that the cash, said to be anywhere between Rs 5 crore and Rs 10 crore, was being brought from Puttaparthi. Saturdays catch The Anantapur police on Sunday recorded the statement of Harishananda Shetty, from whom they had seized Rs 35 lakh on Saturday night. Shetty named a certain Shekhar handed him the consignment. Shekhar, the car driver of a trustee of Sathya Sai institute, was arrested late on Sunday. Sources said Shetty, a native of Ajjarakadu in Udupi, is an employee of a private construction company in Bangalore with its office on MG Road and was deputed to Puttaparthi to construct the samadhi of Sathya Sai Baba.

                                                                                                               
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