GRP seizes two cash consignments worth crores in just a week

Varanasi: In less than a week's time, the Government Railway Police have succeeded in catching two huge consignments of cash being transported to different destinations through carriers.
The GRP Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar Junction in Chandauli district caught a person with cash worth Rs 1.50 crore being transported to Howrah from Delhi on Saturday evening while on March 6, the GRP Varanasi Junction had caught two persons with cash worth Rs one crore, given to them by a firm owner in Varanasi to deliver in Jharkhand. Both the cases were handed over to the Income Tax department officials for further investigation.
Inspector GRP PDDU Nagar Suresh Kumar Singh said that during routine checking at the platforms his team’s attention was drawn towards suspicious activities of a youth standing at the stairs of platform three and four. On checking his suitcase, cash worth Rs 1.50 crore was found packed inside it, he said adding, the youth could not show any documents in support of the cash being transported by him.
He was taken to the GRP station office. Singh said that the youth, identified as Rajesh Das of Korba district in Chhattisgarh, revealed that one Ashish Agrawal of Delhi had given him the money to deliver it to someone in Howrah. The official said that Das had been given a token with a code to match it with the person to whom he had to deliver the cash in Howrah.
Earlier, on March 6, two persons including Subodh Kumar Chaudhary and Abhishek Kumar Sinha of Dhanbad district in Jharkhand were caught at platform no. 9 when they were trying to escape on noticing the GRP personnel. Inspector GRP Varanasi Junction Hemant Singh said that when their bags were checked cash Rs 50 lakh were recovered from the bags of each of them. Both of them divulged that the owner of a trading firm Abhishek Agrawal had assigned them the task to collect bags containing cash from Maldahiya area by providing the mobile phone number of a person. They said that the person, who met them near a petrol pump in Maldahiya, had left them on many streets before handing over the bags to deliver them in Jharkhand. The duo had reached Varanasi junction to board the train for Dhanbad.
Officials said that both the cases had been forwarded to the IT department for proper investigation while the police have been asked to remain more vigilant.