The Income Tax department has recovered around Rs 70 lakh in cash from the residence of Trinamul Congress MLA Bayron Biswas during a search there in connection with alleged evasion of taxes, a senior official said on Thursday.

The search, which started at the legislator's residence at Samserganj in Murshidabad district of West Bengal on Wednesday morning, got over late in the night after around 19 hours, he added.

"We have recovered cash amounting to Rs 70 lakh during the raid in Bayron Biswas' residence. There was no clarity on why such a huge amount of money was kept there," the official said.

The MLA declined to comment on this matter when PTI contacted him.

Biswas won a by-election from the Sagardighi constituency on a Congress ticket but later joined the Trinamul Congress.

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