Another large scale seizure of 500/1000 notes in Gujarat worth Rs 3 crore, 4 nabbed

Rajkot: In two more incidents of large scale seizure of invalidated Rs 500 and 1000 currency notes in Gujarat, Rajkot police has seized thousands of such notes from two places worth around Rs 3 crore and detained 4 persons in this connection.

Earlier such notes worth around Rs 1.45 crore were seized from two different places in Narmada and Vadodara districts yesterday and two persons were nabbed in this connection

Police today said that on a tip off it nabbed two persons from a min truck including its driver near Pithadiya in Virpur police station area of Rajkot district and recovered 10 bags of such notes containing a total of Rs 2.5 crore.The truck reportedly belonged to a local pump manufacturing company which was allegedly taking the cash to its owner residence at Mendarana. The cash was handed over to the income tax department for further investigation.

In another such incident a team from Jetpur police station nabbed two persons from a car with cash worth Rs 50 lakh in Rs 500/1000 old currency notes.

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