Puri: The Railway Protection Force (RPF) seized over Rs 28 lakh cash from a passenger at Puri railway station on Friday.
The cash was seized from Uday Kumar, a resident of Visakhapatnam. He was to board a train to Visakhapatnam from Puri.
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The RPF personnel found Rs 28,85,500 in his luggage. Kumar has been detained for questioning.
According to reports, Kumar told the RPF that he got the cash from a land deal.
In December last year, RPF and Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel had seized cash of over Rs 24 lakh from the luggage of a passenger at Cuttack railway station.
The passenger Arun Kumar Swain was travelling in Rajdhani Express bound for New Delhi.
