Notes Of Rs 2000 Seized

After the Reserve Bank of India's decision to withdraw Rs 2000 notes, one meat shop in Delhi cleverly utilised this announcement to increase its sales.

The DRI has arrested a man and seized fake Rs 2,000 notes having face value of Rs 7.56 lakh from his possession.

Of this amount, Rs 110 crore was seized by the IT Department, Rs 4.54 crore seized by ED, Rs 26.21 crore by the CBI and Rs 38 lakh by the DRI, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said.

The Income Tax department, Enforcement Directorate and other government agencies have seized Rs 141.13 crore worth of new currency notes of Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 while acting in different parts of the country, Lok Sabha was informed today.

The Border Security Force (BSF) seized 200 fake currency notes of Rs 2,000 denomination in two separate cases near the Indo-Bangladesh International Border (IB) in West Bengal.

To check counterfeiting, the government plans to change security features of higher denomination banknotes of Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 every 3-4 years in accordance with global standards. The move comes in the wake of recovery of a large amount of fake Indian currency notes in last four months after demonetisation.

Malda in West Bengal was always the capital for counterfeit notes smuggled in from bordering Bangladesh.

The Border Security Force (BSF) has seized a packet of "high quality" fake Rs 2,000 banknotes early on Wednesday from West Bengal's Malda district along the India-Bangladesh border, amid mounting concern that currency counterfeiters may have been quicker off the mark than expected.

Unaccounted cash worth Rs 36 lakh in the denomination of Rs 2000 notes were seized from a car in Coimbatore's Tirupur district, early today.

Two persons were arrested today with counterfeit Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 currency notes with a face value of Rs 26,10,000, police in Gujarat's Rajkot said.

Busting a currency exchange racket, police have seized Rs 39.98 lakh in Rs 2,000 denomination notes at Tirur area in the district and arrested a man, already facing a hawala case, in this connection.

The Income Tax department has seized Rs 66 lakh cash, all in new Rs 2000 notes, as part of the anti-black money crackdown operations in Hyderabad.

On Nov. 8 - the same day American politics was upended - India's prime minister announced the sudden invalidation of all high denomination currency notes, accounting for a whopping 86 percent of the country's cash.

Nearly three crores in new notes were found in a Bengaluru apartment where tax officials faced an elderly woman and her two dogs.

In two separate incidents, Odisha Police arrested a youth on charge of circulating fake Rs 2,000 notes and recovered Rs 4.8 lakh stocked in the newly-introduced denomination post the Centre's demonetisation move.

After the Reserve Bank of India's decision to withdraw Rs 2000 notes, one meat shop in Delhi cleverly utilised this announcement to increase its sales.

The DRI has arrested a man and seized fake Rs 2,000 notes having face value of Rs 7.56 lakh from his possession.

Of this amount, Rs 110 crore was seized by the IT Department, Rs 4.54 crore seized by ED, Rs 26.21 crore by the CBI and Rs 38 lakh by the DRI, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said.

The Income Tax department, Enforcement Directorate and other government agencies have seized Rs 141.13 crore worth of new currency notes of Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 while acting in different parts of the country, Lok Sabha was informed today.

The Border Security Force (BSF) seized 200 fake currency notes of Rs 2,000 denomination in two separate cases near the Indo-Bangladesh International Border (IB) in West Bengal.

To check counterfeiting, the government plans to change security features of higher denomination banknotes of Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 every 3-4 years in accordance with global standards. The move comes in the wake of recovery of a large amount of fake Indian currency notes in last four months after demonetisation.

Malda in West Bengal was always the capital for counterfeit notes smuggled in from bordering Bangladesh.

The Border Security Force (BSF) has seized a packet of "high quality" fake Rs 2,000 banknotes early on Wednesday from West Bengal's Malda district along the India-Bangladesh border, amid mounting concern that currency counterfeiters may have been quicker off the mark than expected.

Unaccounted cash worth Rs 36 lakh in the denomination of Rs 2000 notes were seized from a car in Coimbatore's Tirupur district, early today.

Two persons were arrested today with counterfeit Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 currency notes with a face value of Rs 26,10,000, police in Gujarat's Rajkot said.

Busting a currency exchange racket, police have seized Rs 39.98 lakh in Rs 2,000 denomination notes at Tirur area in the district and arrested a man, already facing a hawala case, in this connection.

The Income Tax department has seized Rs 66 lakh cash, all in new Rs 2000 notes, as part of the anti-black money crackdown operations in Hyderabad.

On Nov. 8 - the same day American politics was upended - India's prime minister announced the sudden invalidation of all high denomination currency notes, accounting for a whopping 86 percent of the country's cash.

Nearly three crores in new notes were found in a Bengaluru apartment where tax officials faced an elderly woman and her two dogs.

In two separate incidents, Odisha Police arrested a youth on charge of circulating fake Rs 2,000 notes and recovered Rs 4.8 lakh stocked in the newly-introduced denomination post the Centre's demonetisation move.