Two including Doctor nabbed from bus in Surat with scrapped notes worth over 42 lakhs

Surat: Two persons including a doctor traveling in a long distance bus were nabbed with scrapped Rs 500 and 1000 notes worth over 42 lakh in Udhna area of the city this morning, police said.

ACP Jay Pandya said that there was a tip off about the smuggling of liquor from Maharashtra after which checking of buses was being done near Dakshewar temple teen rasta in Udhana area of the city early morning today.

During the checking of a bus from Nasik to Ahmedabad, 26 bunldes of old Rs 1000 notes containing 2586 notes (Rs 25.86 lakhs) and 33 bundles of old Rs 500 notes containing 3233 such notes (Rs 1616500), in all worth Rs 4205500 was recovered from two persons identified as Doctor Krishna Vikram Borse (39), a resident and practicing doctor of Amroli area of Surat who is a native of Dhuliya district of Maharashtra and Ramesh alias Sanjay Mewana (34) a mason from Rajkot who is a native of Porbander.

They have been arrested as they could not provide a satisfactory answer to the queries regarding the source of the money. The matter has also been informed to the Income Tax department.

It is understood that the money was brought for illegal exhange with new currency on commission. The matter is being investigated.

Earlier on March 22, police in Adajan area here had nabbed two persons from a car with such scrapped notes worth Rs 29 lakhs.

DeshGujarat