coimbatore in a major haul in the district an election flying squad team on thursday early morning seized rs134 crore from two passengers of a karnataka state road transport corporation ksrtc bus at gandhipurm here and also picked them up for questioning the seized amount was later handed over to income tax department officials a ashraf 40 of yeshwanthpur in bengaluru i dhanlath 30 of kannur in kerala arrived at thiruvalluvar bus stand in gandhipuram here on a ksrtc bus from bengaluru ashraf is a lodge owner on thursday around 430am the duo got down from the bus with three travel bags coimbatore south assembly constituency flying squadii officer h sheriff and team were camping at the bus stand and on suspicion they checked their bags and found currency notes officials asked the duo to produce valid documents to prove the source of money but they failed during interrogation officials said the duo gave contradicting statements they first said the money was proceeds from the sale of gold bars in bengaluru but later said they were into real estate business and have raised the money from some property deals then the duo claimed that the money belonged to one yousuf of perintalmanna in malappuram district in keralameanwhile yousuf also reached coimbatore but he failed to produce any valid document yousuf said he was into many businesses in gulf countries and owned a mobile shop in perintalmanna but he didnt even possess a pan card as we couldnt verify the source of money we handed over the amount to income tax department officials said sheriffthe duo was also handed over to the income tax department officials for further investigation in a similar incident static surveillance teams from sulur assembly constituency have seized rs77880 from a businessman kumaravelu 55 of sulthanpet during a vehicle check at senjeri pirivu on thursday morning and another rs25 lakh from one prabhakaran of palani at sulthanpet both of them however produced valid documents to the returning officer r vijayalakshmi of sulur constituency who verified them and returned the amount