New Delhi: The Income Tax Department team, along with the Crime Branch, have recovered Rs 3.25 crore cash in old currency notes from a hotel in Karol Bagh in Delhi on Wednesday.
As per the latest reports, the team has detained five persons.
#UPDATE: 5 detained after Rs 3.25 crore in old notes was seized from Hotel Taksh in Delhi's Karol Bagh by IT Dept & Crime Branch in joint op pic.twitter.com/Ypql2P0Z63— ANI (@ANI_news) December 14, 2016
Acting on a tip-off, the cash was been recovered from room number 202 and 206 from Hotel Taksh Inn in Karol Bagh.
Reportedly, it has been found, during interrogation, that the money belongs to a Bombay-based hawala operators who had hired packaging specialists for packing the notes in such a manner that it went undetectable by airport scanning machines.
Interestingly, the experts had used some tapes and wires which pass through X-Ray machine.
Meanwhile, the IT department is analysing the mobile details of those detained.
The everyday seizure of cash has certainly raised many questions on the accountability of the demonetisation drive announced by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 8.
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