Businessman held at Dimapur airport with Rs 5.5 cr in old notes

November 22, 2016 13:37

A Bihar-based businessman, travelling alone in a chartered jet, has been apprehended today at the Dimapur airport in Nagaland for allegedly carrying Rs 5.5 crore in demonetised currency.

Officials said sleuths of central security agencies and CISF are questioning the man, identified as A Singh from Bihar's Munger district, soon after his jet landed. They said the jet had taken off from Sirsa in Haryana early today.

"The CISF sleuths acted on some prior inputs and intercepted the passenger as soon as he landed. He is being questioned and the cash being verified," they said.

A special vigil has been deployed by security agencies and the Central Industrial Security Force in the wake of the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes by the government.

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