Patna,(BiharTimes): To keep a tab over use of illegal cash and valuables in the coming parliamentary elections in Bihar and Jharkhand the Income Tax department will depute 65 officers and 130 inspectors.

This information was given to the media by Director General of Income Tax (Investigation) Ujjwal Chaudhary. He said control rooms have been set up in Patna and Ranchi with toll free numbers for round-the-clock vigil over movement of illegal cash during elections in the two states.

They are 1800-3456349 and 0612-2504250 (landline) and 0612-2504251 (fax) for Patna and 1800-3456547, landline 0651-2332408 and fax 0651-2332406 for Ranchi.

He also said that an Air intelligence unit has been made operational in Patna, Gaya and Ranchi airports to keep a watch over passengers in chartered aircraft, private planes and helicopters.

Chaudhary said besides one officer of Assistant Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner rank, inspectors would be deployed in 40 Lok Sabha constituencies in Bihar and 14 in Jharkhand for keeping a tab over cash movement and expenditure details of candidates.

Apart from this special care would be kept on porous India-Nepal borders in coordination with other agencies. A meeting of SSB (Sahashtra Seema Bal), CISF, Airport Authority, Customs, Railways and Income Tax has been called by the chief electoral officer for better coordination between different agencies during polls.

Director of Income Tax, Kumar Sanjay, who has been made nodal officer for the two states, said Rs 50,000 were permissible for a passenger at airport during election time. Beyond this amount one has to explain the purpose for which the cash or gold is carried and if the explanation is not satisfactory suitable action will be initiated.

Sanjay said bank managers had been instructed to pass on information about any withdrawal above Rs 10 lakh.