Gurgaon Police arrest five men with 4.9 mn old Rs 500, Rs 1000 notes

The Gurgaon Police arrested five people and seized over 4.9 million in old currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000, police said on Sunday.

The accused were trying to change the demonetised notes with new ones on March 1, they said.
The police's crime branch received information about four youths and a team immediately intercepted their car at the Himgiri Chowk at Sector 10.

"We have arrested them and seized the car. During the search, the police team found a suitcase containing 4.99 million old currency notes," said Gurgaon police PRO Ravinder Kumar.
Sanjay Lal, Bithal Keser, Lucky Sharma, and Satya Narayan Mandal have been arrested.

"During interrogation, Sanjay Lal revealed that Rajesh Kumar Miglani, a Noida-based resident, had given the old notes,"Kumar said.

Kashmir terror funding: Rs 36 cr seized in demonetised notes, NIA arrests 9

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday said it had seized nearly Rs 36.5 crore in demonetised currency and arrested nine persons here in its ongoing probe into the Jammu and Kashmir terror funding case.

Following inputs, an NIA team seized the currency on Monday on Jai Singh Road near Connaught Place -- a business and financial hub of Delhi situated not more than eight km from the counter-terror agency's headquarters.

"Seven gang members were initially apprehended while carrying 28 cartons filled with the demonetised notes in four luxury vehicles. Their other accomplices were apprehended later in the evening. We seized Rs 36,34,78,500 from their possession," NIA Spokesperson Alok Mittal told IANS.

He said after initial questioning at the NIA headquarters, the nine were arrested on Tuesday in the Jammu and Kashmir terror funding case. They will be produced in a Special NIA court on Wednesday.

Those held were Pradeep Chauhan, 47, Bhagwan Singh, 54, Vinod Shreedhar Shetty, 47, Shahnawaz Mir, 45, Deepak Toprani, 60, Majid Yousuf Sofi, 27, Ejajul Hassan, 38, Umar Mushtaq Dar, 27, and Jaswinder Singh, 53.

Three accused hail from Jammu and Kashmir, two from Delhi, two from Mumbai, and one each from Uttar Pradesh and Nagpur.
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