KANPUR: More than 48 hours after improving over Rs 97 crore in demonetised currency+ notes and arresting 16 other folks, investigating agencies are nonetheless clueless as to how the accused deliberate to interchange the outdated notes with new ones. They have now pinned their hopes on 'Hari Krishna' of Bengaluru, who according to the arrested individuals, promised to interchange the demonetised currency at 40% in their face value.
Superintendent of police (East) Anurag Arya instructed TOI on Thursday that police, after collecting concrete proof against the accused, would move court docket to hunt their custody. The accused are in judicial custody until January 30.
Arya said the case was "mysterious" for a number of causes as not one of the 16 accused have published the identify of the individual to whom they had been supposed to in the end deliver the demonetised notes. A few amongst them additionally said the money was to be exchanged via one more "big firm", but they have got not named it but. Police said a botany professor, Santosh Yadav, of Kanpur used to collect money from Kanpur and Lucknow and likewise act as a money changer.
"Sanjeev Agarwal and Maneesh Agarwal, real estate businessmen, hailing from West Bengal, used to work as a commission agent. Similarly, Koteshwar Rao of Hyderabad also used to work as an agent for Hari Krishna from Bengaluru. Going by their primary confession... our investigation will now focus on him," a senior official instructed TOI.
The investigators further published that they operated their community from 5 states —UP, Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, West Bengal and Karnataka. "The agents took Kanpur-Varanasi-Kolkata-Hyderabad, Kanpur-Varanasi-Hyderabad, Kanpur-West UPDelhi routes to bring the old currency. They claimed to have exchanged around Rs 15 crore of demonetised currency to Anand Khatri," said an official privy to the investigation.
Superintendent of police (East) Anurag Arya instructed TOI on Thursday that police, after collecting concrete proof against the accused, would move court docket to hunt their custody. The accused are in judicial custody until January 30.
Arya said the case was "mysterious" for a number of causes as not one of the 16 accused have published the identify of the individual to whom they had been supposed to in the end deliver the demonetised notes. A few amongst them additionally said the money was to be exchanged via one more "big firm", but they have got not named it but. Police said a botany professor, Santosh Yadav, of Kanpur used to collect money from Kanpur and Lucknow and likewise act as a money changer.
"Sanjeev Agarwal and Maneesh Agarwal, real estate businessmen, hailing from West Bengal, used to work as a commission agent. Similarly, Koteshwar Rao of Hyderabad also used to work as an agent for Hari Krishna from Bengaluru. Going by their primary confession... our investigation will now focus on him," a senior official instructed TOI.
The investigators further published that they operated their community from 5 states —UP, Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, West Bengal and Karnataka. "The agents took Kanpur-Varanasi-Kolkata-Hyderabad, Kanpur-Varanasi-Hyderabad, Kanpur-West UPDelhi routes to bring the old currency. They claimed to have exchanged around Rs 15 crore of demonetised currency to Anand Khatri," said an official privy to the investigation.
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