Even after almost six months of demonetisation of Rs500 and Rs1,000 denomination currency notes, scrapped currency notes are continuously being seized in the State as in the past 10 days the Gujarat police seized defunct currency notes having face value of more than Rs8.5 crores. The latest such seizure was reported on Monday from industrial Changodar area on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. The special operation group of Ahmedabad rural police arrested two persons with Rs49 lakh scrapped currency notes during the wee hours on Monday. The arrested persons identified as Habib Shama and Shantilal Chudasama told the police that the notes belong to couple of Ahmedabad based jewelers. Sources in the State Police Department informed that Shama and Chudasama were nabbed following a tip-off. The cops waited for them near the national highway passing through Changodar industrial area as a car came and the police saw two persons coming out of it with a large box, they cordoned them, said the police, adding that during the process somehow the one more person who was inside the vehicle drove the car and fled. Police recovered 6,267 defunct notes of Rs500 denomination and 1,859 notes of Rs1000 denomination from the accused. The total face value of the seized notes is Rs49.93 lakhs.