Delhi Police has seized over Rs 49 lakh in old high-value currency notes from a man, who was taking the money to Haryana, on Tikri border in west Delhi. On November 18, Nazer-e-Alam, a resident of Gorakhpur, was arrested with Rs 96 lakh in old currency notes of Rs 1,000 denominations. He was carrying a bag with Rs 96 lakh and couldn’t offer any satisfactory explanation for possessing such a huge amount of cash. On November 17, police had seized 500 demonetised notes of Rs 1,000 denominations from an employee of a West Bengal-based firm, onboard Sealdah-Delhi Rajdhani train. Police had detained a paediatrician with Rs 69,86,000 in Rs 100 denominations in central Delhi’s Paharganj area on November 16.

Source: Indian Express November 21, 2016 13:16 UTC