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A 40-year-old property dealer was shot dead by two unidentified assailants in his own house on Monday while his wife was critically injured in the attack, police said.
Addressing a public rally in Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh, Modi said that as a result of demonetising 500 and 1,000 rupee notes, the poor were sleeping well and those who had unaccountd money were buying sleeping pills.
On Wednesday, sacks full of the high denomination notes were found abandoned in the town of Bareilly. And yesterday, a rag picker in Maharashtra found a trash bag packed with about Rs. 50,000 worth of the old-school currency.
A woman was arrested today for allegedly extorting money from various persons after chatting with them on dating websites, police said.
Amid rumours of a salt shortage in different parts of Delhi, National Capital Region (NCR) and Uttar Pradesh, both central and Delhi governments on Friday clarified there is no such shortage.