Assam: Cops find Rs 1.5-cr worth new notes in Guwahati businessman’s house

“We have so far recovered currency notes of Rs 2000 and new Rs 500 worth at least Rs 1.5 crore from the residence of Harjit Singh Bedi, a businessman who owns a restaurant and bar in the city. While he has claimed that he has proper documents to prove that it was not black money, we have asked the IT department to examine the case,” Raunak Ali Hazarika, DIG of the Assam Police CID said. The raid, which began in a flat owned by the businessman at an apartment building in the Beltola residential area, was still going on till late in the evening with CID DIG Hazarika saying the police were searching every room of the “big” flat in detail.

“This is the first such big recovery of a huge amount of new currency notes, and we are also investigating into how the businessman could collect such an amount,” the DIG said. The case would be further investigated by the IT department, he added. Two days ago, the Assam Police CID had recovered new notes of Rs 2000 denomination worth Rs 80 lakh from the house of another businessman in the Hatigaon area of Guwahati.