KANPUR:The ultimate tally of seized demonetised foreign money, nation's one of the most greatest haul submit demonetisation, within the city exceeded to Rs 97 crore whilst the selection of people arrested within the case has now long gone up to 16.
The Home division in the meantime within the state capital stated prima facie no terror link have been established. It might be noted that Union executive had banned foreign money notes particularly within the denomination of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 in November, 2016 to flush out black money, get rid of fake foreign money notes particand stop terror-funding.
Raids have been performed on a tip-off from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Special crew of IG Zone Alok Singh. According to SSP Akhilesh Kumar, the arrested people come with Anand Khatri, a prominent city builder and two other locals including Santosh Yadav, a professor of DAV faculty and Mohit Dhingra, besides a lady Rajeshwari of Andhra Pradesh, Koteshwar Rao of Telangana, Sanjeev Agarwal of Kolkata (West Bengal), Ali Husain of Andhra Pradesh, Maneesh Agarwal of Howrah (West Bengal). Others arrested have been Santosh Pathak and Sanjay Kumar Singh of Varanasi, Ramashray, Sanjay Rai and Dhirendra from Mirzapur, Sant Kumar Yadav of Baghpat, Omkar Yadav of Lucknow and Anil Yadav of Saharanpur.
The money includes demonetised notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denominations value Rs 97.60 crore. The raids have been performed on a tip off from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) that was passed directly to inspector common of police (zone) Alok Singhs workplace. The arrested individuals were booked below Specified Bank Notes (Cessation of Liabilities) Act, 2017, besides various other sections including 420, 511 and 120 (b) of IPC and sent to jail.
SSP further said Rs 95 crore belonged to Anand Khatri, the builder, and over a dozen others owned the rest quantity. "The quantity of Rs 1,000 notes was more in comparison to Rs 500 notes," said SSP further. SP East Anurag Arya further elaborated concerning the SBN act that the Specified Bank Notes (Cessation of Liabilities) Act, 2017, was passed by Parliament in Feb remaining 12 months so as to eliminating the "possibility of running a parallel economy" the usage of the outdated Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes which were demonetised.
The executive had notified the regulation that makes the protecting of greater than 10 scrapped notes punishable with a minimum effective of Rs 10,000. The Act ends the liability of the Reserve Bank of India and the federal government on the demonetised foreign money notes.
The officer said the banned foreign money notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denominations, have been stacked in type of a mattress in separate rooms on the below development area of Anand Khatri. Officials said that the matter has been transferred to the IT division for investigating the source of those banned notes.
It could also be recalled, separate police groups acting on a particular tip-off that a gang of outdated foreign money racketeers from japanese portions including Varanasi and Mirzapur districts, of the state, besides West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states have been putting up at different inns inluding resort Gagan, resort Bliss and resort Namaskar situated in separate portions of the town with banned foreign money, raids have been performed and 13 people have been arrested. On the tip-off provided by them, 3 others including Anand Khatri, a prominent city builder and two other locals including Santosh Yadav, a professor of DAV faculty and Mohit Dhingra, have been arrested.
Simultaneously raid was performed on the below development area of Khatri close to Gole Chauraha in Swaroop Nagar and demonetized foreign money amounting to Rs 96.60 crore was seized from there. SSP Akhilesh Kumar further said
Rs 95 crore belonged to Anand Khatri, the builder, and over a dozen others owned the rest quantity.Inspector General (Kanpur Range) Alok Singh, who has provided City police specific inputs, was supervising the case.
Initially the arrested individuals tried to deceive police, but later throughout maintain grilling they broke down and confessed to their crime, the police said.
A senior police officer, who was leading the investigation crew, said that the arrested individuals have been a part of outdated foreign money racket, which was active within the exchange of demonetized foreign money notes. "The police will investigate the source of the currency and the link of the arrested people with the hawala counterparts in other parts of the country," he said.
Earlier, in November remaining, the NIA had recovered Rs 36.34 crore in outdated notes in Delhi and arrested nine individuals in connection with its probe into Jammu and Kashmir terror investment. Sources said nine individuals arrested are "agents" who have been gathering money at decreased rates from various individuals and have been changing the money into new notes with the help of some bank
officers.
The Home division in the meantime within the state capital stated prima facie no terror link have been established. It might be noted that Union executive had banned foreign money notes particularly within the denomination of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 in November, 2016 to flush out black money, get rid of fake foreign money notes particand stop terror-funding.
Raids have been performed on a tip-off from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Special crew of IG Zone Alok Singh. According to SSP Akhilesh Kumar, the arrested people come with Anand Khatri, a prominent city builder and two other locals including Santosh Yadav, a professor of DAV faculty and Mohit Dhingra, besides a lady Rajeshwari of Andhra Pradesh, Koteshwar Rao of Telangana, Sanjeev Agarwal of Kolkata (West Bengal), Ali Husain of Andhra Pradesh, Maneesh Agarwal of Howrah (West Bengal). Others arrested have been Santosh Pathak and Sanjay Kumar Singh of Varanasi, Ramashray, Sanjay Rai and Dhirendra from Mirzapur, Sant Kumar Yadav of Baghpat, Omkar Yadav of Lucknow and Anil Yadav of Saharanpur.
The money includes demonetised notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denominations value Rs 97.60 crore. The raids have been performed on a tip off from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) that was passed directly to inspector common of police (zone) Alok Singhs workplace. The arrested individuals were booked below Specified Bank Notes (Cessation of Liabilities) Act, 2017, besides various other sections including 420, 511 and 120 (b) of IPC and sent to jail.
SSP further said Rs 95 crore belonged to Anand Khatri, the builder, and over a dozen others owned the rest quantity. "The quantity of Rs 1,000 notes was more in comparison to Rs 500 notes," said SSP further. SP East Anurag Arya further elaborated concerning the SBN act that the Specified Bank Notes (Cessation of Liabilities) Act, 2017, was passed by Parliament in Feb remaining 12 months so as to eliminating the "possibility of running a parallel economy" the usage of the outdated Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes which were demonetised.
The executive had notified the regulation that makes the protecting of greater than 10 scrapped notes punishable with a minimum effective of Rs 10,000. The Act ends the liability of the Reserve Bank of India and the federal government on the demonetised foreign money notes.
The officer said the banned foreign money notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denominations, have been stacked in type of a mattress in separate rooms on the below development area of Anand Khatri. Officials said that the matter has been transferred to the IT division for investigating the source of those banned notes.
It could also be recalled, separate police groups acting on a particular tip-off that a gang of outdated foreign money racketeers from japanese portions including Varanasi and Mirzapur districts, of the state, besides West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states have been putting up at different inns inluding resort Gagan, resort Bliss and resort Namaskar situated in separate portions of the town with banned foreign money, raids have been performed and 13 people have been arrested. On the tip-off provided by them, 3 others including Anand Khatri, a prominent city builder and two other locals including Santosh Yadav, a professor of DAV faculty and Mohit Dhingra, have been arrested.
Simultaneously raid was performed on the below development area of Khatri close to Gole Chauraha in Swaroop Nagar and demonetized foreign money amounting to Rs 96.60 crore was seized from there. SSP Akhilesh Kumar further said
Rs 95 crore belonged to Anand Khatri, the builder, and over a dozen others owned the rest quantity.Inspector General (Kanpur Range) Alok Singh, who has provided City police specific inputs, was supervising the case.
Initially the arrested individuals tried to deceive police, but later throughout maintain grilling they broke down and confessed to their crime, the police said.
A senior police officer, who was leading the investigation crew, said that the arrested individuals have been a part of outdated foreign money racket, which was active within the exchange of demonetized foreign money notes. "The police will investigate the source of the currency and the link of the arrested people with the hawala counterparts in other parts of the country," he said.
Earlier, in November remaining, the NIA had recovered Rs 36.34 crore in outdated notes in Delhi and arrested nine individuals in connection with its probe into Jammu and Kashmir terror investment. Sources said nine individuals arrested are "agents" who have been gathering money at decreased rates from various individuals and have been changing the money into new notes with the help of some bank
officers.
Final tally of seized demonetised currency exceeded to Rs 97 crore in Kanpur
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