Rs 19.67 lakh cash seized from businessman’s house in Vadodara

Vadodara: Police here chanced upon cash worth Rs 19.67 lakh, including Rs 13 lakh in the new 2,000 rupee notes, kept in a gunny bag during a raid at the house of a city-based businessman regarding illegal liquor possession.

The notes were seized from a gunny bag kept in a cupboard in the businessman’s house, located on Ajwa Road in the city, during the raid yesterday, Detection Crime Branch police Inspector M S Vaghela said.

During the raid, 650 notes of Rs 2,000 denomination, 6,000 notes of Rs 100, 500 notes of Rs 20 denomination, 1,000 notes of Rs 50 and 700 notes of Rs 10 denomination were seized from the house, Vaghela said.

Acting on a tip-off regarding illegal liquor possession, police first went to Goyal’s house on Sunday and seizure 91 cases of IMFL and some foreign liquor brands allegedly stored in his house illegally.

“We arrested the businessman on Sunday after seizure of liquor bottles, under relevant provisions of the Gujarat Prohibition Act, as Gujarat is a dry state,” Vaghela said.

The businessman was then produced before a local court which remanded him in one-day police custody. He was later released on bail.

During the remand period, Goyal revealed that a member of his family was holding liquor permit issued on health ground by the state Prohibition department and claimed that he had purchased the liquor from an authorised shop.

In order to find the invoices of the liquor purchased, police raided the businessman’s house yesterday and chanced upon the gunny bag containing the currency notes and seized it, Vaghela said.

The Vadodara police have informed the Income Tax department about the currency seizure, he added.

 

Rs 33 lakh cash in 2,000 rupee notes seized; 5 held

Mumbai: Five persons were detained after Rs 33 lakh in 2,000 rupee notes was seized in two separate cases in Navi Mumbai and Ulhasnagar in Thane, police said on Tuesday.

In Navi Mumbai, two persons were held after seizure of the new notes worth Rs 23.70 lakh, while three persons were held in Ulhasnagar after Rs 9.76 lakh in Rs 2,000 denomination was recovered last evening, they said.

In the case of the Navi Mumbai seizure, the Koparkhairane police said those taken into custody have not been able to answer queries regarding possession of the notes.

 

 

Hawala operator arrested, Rs 5.70 crore in new currency seized

New Delhi: CBI on Tuesday arrested an alleged hawala operator K V Veerendra in connection with seizure of Rs 5.70 crore of new currency notes of Rs 2000 denomination from his premises in Karanataka.

The agency sources said CBI has registered a case against officials of four banks–State Bank of India, State Bank of Mysore, ICICI Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank.

They said Veerendra was produced before Special court in Bengaluru which has sent him to six days of CBI custody for questioning.

The sources said during preliminary probe names of several persons have been taken by Veerendra and it is trying to gather material evidence linking the alleged hawala operator with them.

The sources said during the six days of questioning CBI will confront him with documents recovered from his premises and will try to get the source of these funds which may unravel alleged involvement of senior bank officials in the case.

PTI