Babush Monserrate was detained carrying 1 crores to Dubai:
1 crores for shopping: what arms? The education minister of Goa, Babush Monserrate was detained at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport on Saturday morning for carrying Indian and foreign currencies valued to be over Rs25 lakh, which were beyond the permissible limits. He was on his way to Dubai and was detained before he was about leave the terminal. The custom officials investigating the case suspect it to be black money, sourced through illegal means by the minister. “A probe has been launched regarding this,” said an official. The sleuths are also probing the purpose for which the money was being taken to Dubai, even though Babush claims that it was for shopping. The sources said that cash included Rs75,000 of Indian currencies and the rest were the foreign currencies. As per the Reserve Bank of India, currencies worth only 5,000 dollars are allowed to be carried out. Out of which only 2,000 dollars could be in cash, while the rest can be in cheques. For amount more than that, the permission from RBI is necessary. The sources said that Babush did not take any permission from the RBI and neither did he declare it at the airport. Babush’s son Rohit was booked in 2009 for allegedly raping a minor girl of foreign nationality when she had come to spend a vacation in Goa. The 14-year-old victim’s mother had alleged that Rohit had raped her daughter and had made her drink alcohol and smoke, in order to evade pregnancy. Manoj Raikar
