Over Rs 50,000 In Banned Notes Found Shredded In Kolkata Canal

Kolkata: A large amount of banned notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 were recovered from a canal in Kolkata on Friday morning, police said.

"We recovered hoards of old currency notes amounting to more than Rs 50,000, from beside the Kestopur Canal (in northeast Kolkata's Baguihati area) on Friday morning," said senior police officer Tapas Kumar Sil.

"Most of the currency notes were torn to pieces. It seems someone threw them into the canal as they have become useless post the demonetisation," he said.

Officers of Baguihati police station have seized the old notes and the Reserve Bank of India has been informed about the incident.