Shamli police seize Rs 1cr from car, 4 held

  • | Saturday | 30th March, 2019

While Bijnor witnessed the seizure of Rs 85 lakh from one vehicle and Rs 8 lakh from another car, Muzaffarnagar police deposited in the treasury Rs 11 lakh which was seized from a car recently. The police chased the car for several kilometres and managed to stop it. "With the Lok Sabha polls round the corner, large amounts of unexplained cash are being seized by monitoring agencies in various districts. Police seized the cash after alerting the income tax department. A prove is on in the matter.

Muzaffarnagar: Days after police in Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor and Bulandshahr recovered large amount of cash, Shamli police on Thursday seized over Rs 1 crore from a car and detained four people in the matter.According to police sources, during vehicle checking in an area under the jurisdiction Ghari-Pukhta police station, cops signalled a car -- which had a sticker 'On Bank Duty' -- to stop but the driver sped away. The police chased the car for several kilometres and managed to stop it. On searching the vehicle, Rs 1 crore in cash was found, but the four occupants could not give any explanation about the money, nor did they had any official papers.Sources said the four men in the car initially claimed that the money belonged to a bank and that they going to load it into an ATM but could not produce valid bank paper.Superintendent of police, Shamli, Ajay Kumar said, "The four men could not provide any satisfactory answer on why they were carrying the money. Police seized the cash after alerting the income tax department. A prove is on in the matter."With the Lok Sabha polls round the corner, large amounts of unexplained cash are being seized by monitoring agencies in various districts. While Bijnor witnessed the seizure of Rs 85 lakh from one vehicle and Rs 8 lakh from another car, Muzaffarnagar police deposited in the treasury Rs 11 lakh which was seized from a car recently.

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