Two unclaimed bags with Rs. 60 lakh in demonetised Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 currencies were recovered from Laitumkhrah premises of Ramkrishna Mission in the city and handed over to the Income tax officials, police said today.
The officials at the Ramkrishna Mission were alerted about two unclaimed polythene bags found abandoned near the temple and reported to their higher authorities who took it up with the police top brass.
"We were informed of the presence of unclaimed polythene bags on Monday evening and that it contained demonetised notes," SP City Vivek Syiem said.
He said the bags were actually found on November 12 but the Ramkrishna Mission officials at Laitumkhrah took time to report since they had waited for a nod from their headquarters in Kolkata.
But since the Ramkrishna Mission cannot accept donations from anonymous donors and that they had to put the same in the book of accounts, the matter was reported to the police days after.
Of the Rs. 60 lakh demonetised notes, in Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 currencies, were found in the two polythene bags and the same was handed over to the Income Tax department officials for follow up action by the police.
The identity of the person who kept the huge cash at the premises also remained untraced since the organisation installs CCTVs only during pujas.
OLD NOTES WORTH RS. 3 CRORE THAT 'VANISHED' FROM NAGALAND AIRPORT FOUND
After a series of twists and turns, Rs. 3.5 crore cash in demonetised currency notes, which had 'vanished' from the airport in Nagaland's Dimapur, was finally seized by the Income Tax Department after frantic searches.
A Bihar-based businessman, who was travelling alone in a chartered jet from Hissar, was yesterday detained by the CISF in Dimapur following a tip-off by the Intelligence Bureau that he was carrying "suspect money".
The businessman was questioned by the CISF and other security agencies, and the matter was handed over to the local income tax authorities, who let him go after he showed them some "tax exemption certificates".
There was an alarm when the Intelligence Bureau (IB) wanted to know about the follow-up action taken by the CISF. On being told that they had handed over the matter to I-T authorities who allowed him to go, the matter was discussed at the top level between the IB and Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), and frantic searches began for the man and the missing money. On getting the details and CCTV footage of the episode from CISF, the CBDT ordered I-T officials to hunt for the missing notes.
During the searches at a few premises owned by a Dimapur businessman, the taxmen were able to locate the missing Rs. 3.5 crore. Not only that, they impounded another Rs. 4.47 crore in demonetised Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 notes.
A case has been registered by the I-T authorities and investigation is on.
A special vigil has been deployed by security agencies and the airport guarding Central Industrial Security Force in the wake of the demonetisation of the two high denomination currency notes.
