Gujarat police seized Rs 1 crore in newly introduced Rs 2000 denomination currency notes on Friday near South Gujarat’s commercial capital Surat. The police have arrested four persons in connection with the handling of cash, including a woman, for possessing 38 bundles of Rs 2,000 notes totalling Rs 76 lakh from a SUV car bearing a Maharashtra registration number from the industrial estate of Sachin in Surat. They have been handed over to the I-T officials for questioning.
In a similar case, the police arrested two persons for possessing 90 bundles of Rs 100 currency notes worth Rs 9 lakh from Patan district of north Gujarat.
Earlier, Rs 25 lakh worth of currency was seized from a car in Ranavav area of Porbandar city in which two persons were travelling. The currency was in Rs 2,000 and Rs 100 denominations. The police are on the look out of a banker allegedly involved in the racket.
The last dates for the depositing demonetised currency notes is December 30. With the deadline coming closer, cases of carrying large amount of new as well as demonetised currency notes in different denominations are coming to fore as police too has increased vigil.