Sathya Sai Trust’s vehicle carrying Rs 35 lakh confiscated

Reports claimed that the cash was part of the money found in the private chamber of Sathya Sai Baba.

Police in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh have seized Rs 35 lakh in cash that was being transported in a vehicle allegedly belonging to the Sathya Sai Central Trust,and detained the vehicle’s driver,a senior police officer said on Sunday.

“A vehicle carrying Rs 35 lakh in cash has been confiscated during checking at Kodikonda checkpost under Chilamanthur police station limits bordering Karnataka late last night. We have detained the vehicle driver and verifying from him the source of cash besides where it was being taken,” said Anantapur district Superintendent of Police Shah Nawaz Qasim on phone.

The vehicle allegedly belongs to Sai Central Trust and apart from the driver no one else was there inside. An amount of Rs 35 lakh that was kept in a bag in the vehicle has been seized,Qasim said.

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On reports that the cash was being shifted from Yajur Mandir,the private chamber of late Sathya Sai Baba at Prashanti Nilayam in Puttaparthi town of Anantapur to Bangalore,he said details would be known after the interrogation of the driver. The Chilamanthur police had registered a case and further investigations were on,he said.

The mystery over the treasure trove inside the late Sathya Sai Baba’s personal chamber ‘Yajur Mandir’ was unravelled on Friday,with the disclosure that it contained 98 kg of gold,307 kg of silver apart from Rs 11.56 crore in cash.

The Yajur Mandir had remained closed ever since Sai Baba was hospitalised on March 28. Sai Baba passed away on April

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