Man nabbed from train with Rs 2.5 crore cash in Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad

The Railway Protection Force (RPF) today recovered Rs. 2.5 crore from New Delhi- Ahmedabad SwarnaJayanti Rajdhani express and arrested a man in this connection at Ahmedabad railway station.

RPF Deputy Superintendent of Police Satyaprakash said that the man was sitting on berth number 60 of AC 3 coach B 8 of the train which arrived at platform number 10 at 0940 hrs this morning.

‘All the notes were of Rs. 1000 and Rs. 500 denomination and were kept in three airbags. The RPF team was on a routine check to nab any possible liquor and other narcotics smuggler when the man who identified himself as Nashabhai, coming from Delhi, resisted the checking up of his bags. He has claimed that he had brought the money for one Nattubhai, a local from Ahmedabad,’ the DSP said.

He has been handed over to the income tax sleuths for detailed investigation.

DeshGujarat