Rs 1.60 crore cash seized in Rajkot turns out to be bank money

Rs 1.60 crore cash seized in Rajkot turns out to be bank money

Rajkot:

Rs 1.60 crore of cash was seized from a car by district administration here in Bedi Naka area a day before the first phase polls today but it was later found to be the fund of a local cooperative bank.

The Returning Officer of Rajkot East seat which will also go to polls tomorrow along with other 88 seats across Saurashtra and South Gujarat, M K Patel stopped a car near Bedi Naka and found Rs 1.60 crore of cash.

But during interrogation it was found that the money withdrawn from local branch of Punjab National bank belonged to Rajkot District Cooperative Bank and was being taken to Wankaner.

DeshGujarat