Scrapped Rs 500/1000 notes of face-value one crore recovered from advocate in poll bound Gujarat

Jamnagar:

The Local Crime Branch (LCB) of Jamnagar police today seized scrapped Rs 500 and 1000 notes of face value of Rs one crore from an advocate in the city.

Police said that based on a tip off the old notes scrapped during demonetization last year were recovered from local advocate Mohammed Siddique Qureshi who was carrying it in a bag on his two wheeler. He was nabbed while crossing through Ranjitnagar in the C-division police station area of the city.

There were a total of 13000 old Rs 500 notes (face value 65 lakhs) and 3500 of Rs 1000 (face value 35 lakhs) in the bag.

The matter was under investigation.

DeshGujarat