Unaccounted Rs 5 lakh cash seized in Naxal-hit Kanker district

November 16, 2016 00:02

In the second such seizure in five days, unaccounted cash of over Rs 5 lakh, most of it in now-defunct notes, have been recovered from a man in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Kanker district with security forces suspecting a Maoist link to it.

The man was intercepted when he was travelling in a bus, a senior police official said today.

Based on a specific input, Parimal Vishwas was intercepted when he was travelling in the bus through Durgkondal police station area and cash worth Rs 5,11,900 was found with him, the official said.

While Rs 5.11 lakh was in denominations of banned Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, the rest was in Rs 100 currency, he added.

During interrogation, 43-year-old Vishwas, a native of Basantpur area in adjoining Rajnandgaon district, said he was travelling to Pakhanjore (Kanker) with the cash to meet some family expenses but was unable to explain its source, he said.

Following inputs that post-demonetisation of high value notes, Naxals may use their supporters or villagers to dispose of their cash and get it exchanged, security forces have been put on an alert in Bastar region, a Moist hotbed.

Checks are being conducted to intercept unaccounted cash in Naxal-affected areas, he said.

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