I-T seizes Rs 41.50 lakh unaccounted cash in Bihar

The Income Tax department in Bihar has seized Rs 41.50 lakh as a part of its drive against black money and unaccounted flow of cash in the Lok Sabha polls.
Besides, challans of Rs 9.80 lakh have also been seized till date by the department, I-T DG, Bihar and Jharkhand, Ujjwal Chaudhary told reporters.
The seizure has been made from Darbhanga, Bagha in West Champaran, Director of the investigation department Kumar Sanjay said.
In addition to this, police authorities separately have seized over Rs one crore cash from different places in the two states, Chaudhary said, adding, that an amount of Rs 50 lakh was detected in the account of All Jharkhand Student Union (AJSU) as 'unexplained loan' from two builders.

In the wake of detection of the unexplained loan from AJSU, the I-T department asked 12 registered political parties to furnish details of their accounts till March 2014.
Chaudhary said that the I-T department has deployed more than 200 personnel in the two states and was carrying intensive search at Patna, Gaya and Ranchi airports to keep vigil over passengers including chartered aircraft, private planes and helicopters.