The Static Surveillance Team in Mohali on Friday recovered US$ 16,750, valuing worth Rs12 lakh, and 6,186 Qatar riyals from a NRI.
“The money has been recovered from Hoshiarpur-resident Dr Sandeep Kumar, who was driving a Maruti car and was coming from Chandigarh, during a checking at one of the barricades in the SAS Nagar,” said Assistant Returning Officer-cum-SDM lakhmeer Singh.He said that the surveillance team headed by SDE (Agriculture) GAMADA Surjit Singh and ASI Sukhwant Singh along with team members namely lakhmeer Singh, Satnam Singh, Kulwinder Singh, was checking the vehicle at blockade near T-point of Phase-IX.
The Election Commission of India, to check the misuse of money during elections, has issued strict directive that anybody travelling with more than Rs50,000 have to produce proof or documents for the same.“Dr Sandeep, who is a NRI in Qatar, failed to produce any proper document or relevant proof for the same. So, we have recovered the currency by the team which has been further handed over to the Income Tax Department for initiating further necessary action in this regard,” he added.