Scrapped notes over 91 lakh face value seized, 6 nabbed by Ahmedabad rural SOG

Ahmedabad: In yet another major recovery of scrapped notes of Rs 500/1000 denominations, the special operation group (SOG) of Ahmedabad rural police has recovered such notes of face value of over Rs 91 lakhs near Bakrol ring road cirlce and arrested six persons in this connection.

With this such notes of around 10 crore have been seized in Gujarat within a month.

Rural SOG PSI V M Koladara today said that based on a tip off, a four wheeler was stopped last night on the road going towards Dholka from the Bakrol ring road circle and 2736 notes of old Rs 1000 (face value 2736000) and 12785 of scrapped 500 (face value 6392500), altogether 9128500 face value was found in the vehicle. Six persons identified as Dipak J Vadhia (Resident Bodakdev Ahmedabad), Govind K Vanzara (res- Gandhinagar), Prakash S Parvani (res-Thakkarbapa nagar, Ahmedabad), Piyush K Kansara (res- Mandvi ni pol, Manek Chowk, Ahmedabad), Alpesh R Prajapati (res-Gandhinagar) and Jayendra I Vaghela (res- Kalol, Gandhinagar) sitting in the vehicle were nabbed.

Koladara said that during the primary interrogation they have claimed that the money belonged to them and they have jointly collected it with different amount of contribution for converting it in to valid currency on a commission. The matter was under investigation.

Notably on May 28, the rural SOG in Ahmedabad had nabbed two persons with such notes of face value of Rs 49 lakhs 93 thousand five hundred near Santhan circle. On the same day such notes of Rs one crore one lakh 93 thousand were seized from 4 persons by police in Bharuch while Rs one crore was found in possession of two persons in Rajkot on May 27 and five persons were nabbed in Surat with such notes of around Rs 6 crore on May 21.

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