In operations conducted over a period of the past four days, the Thane crime sleuths have seized Rs 2.25 crore worth demonetised currency notes and detained six persons in connection with the seizure.
Acting on a tip-off, police intercepted a car near Jamblinaka at Thane on February 25 and seized banned currency worth Rs 46 lakh — in the denomination of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes.
The crime branch officials detained three persons Dayashankar Trilok Yadav (28), Abdul Karim Chal (40) and Sunik Muthuraj (29), residents of the Mumbai suburbs of Goregaon, Malad and Ghatkopar respectively.
In the second operation that took place on February 27, the police confiscated demonetised currency notes worth Rs 50 lakh from a motor-bicycle rider Chetan Sudhirsingh Randhawa (36) who was intercepted by the a roving team of crime branch officials near Golden
Dye naka.
He was carrying the banned currency - in the form of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes -in a backpack bag. Randhawa is a resident of Kanjurmarg in north-east Mumbai.
In the third operation, the crime branch sleuths detained two persons from the Tembi Naka area and seized banned currency notes worth Rs 1.29 crore from them. The police identified the three persons as Kishore Gyaneshwar Dambre (25), a resident of Powai and Vinod Navnath Shinde (42), a resident of Nerul in Navi Mumbai.
Giving the details of the seizures by the crime branch officials, Thane Police Commisisoner Param Bir Singh said on Wednesday, “ We have handed over the case to the Income Tax department for further investigations”.