A man has been apprehended with Rs 9 lakh in scrapped Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes at a Delhi Metro station here, officials said today.
CISF officials detected an unattended bag at the baggage checking X-ray machine at Kirti Nagar Metro station here at around 4:30 PM yesterday, they said.
After scanning the bag against possible bomb threat, Rs 9 lakh in demonetised currency notes was recovered from it. A few minutes later, a man identified, as R R Marwah, came to claim the bag, saying he forgot it at the scanner, they said.
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"Initially, he told CISF personnel and Metro staff that he works with the Income Tax department. As he kept changing his statements, his wife was called in and she said that the cash was to be used for a pending court matter of Marwah's sister," officials said.
The case has been handed over to Delhi Police which is further probing the incident, they added.
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