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Delhi: Woman in bank queue robbed of Rs 50,000

According to police, Devi was saving the money for her daughter’s wedding and had come to deposit it because her husband was not getting leave.

Demonetisation, demonetisation news, cash crunch, currency crisis, long queues, market-demonetisation, India news, Indian ExpressIndian policemen stand guard as people queue up outside a bank to exchange and deposit Indian currency of rupees 500 and 1000 denominations in Ahmadabad, India, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. Delivering one of India's biggest-ever economic upsets, Prime Minister Narendra Modi this week declared the bulk of Indian currency notes no longer held any value and told anyone holding those bills to take them to banks. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

A woman standing in queue outside a bank, where she had gone to deposit money, was robbed of Rs 50,000 Saturday. The incident took place in northwest Delhi’s Bhalswa Dairy.

DCP (Northwest district) Milind Dumbre said they have registered a case and launched a probe. Police said the woman, Neelam Devi, stays with her husband, a factory worker, in Mukundpur.

“She was waiting in line for her turn. In the evening, there was some ruckus and she fell down. That’s when someone took the money from her bag,” police said.

According to police, Devi was saving the money for her daughter’s wedding and had come to deposit it because her husband was not getting leave.

Meanwhile, 3,400 personnel of the paramilitary and Delhi Police have been deployed at ATMs and banks in the capital.

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