Police raids Delhi hotel, seizes Rs 3.25 crore in old notes

New Delhi: Based on a tip off, a joint team of Income Tax and the Delhi Crime Branch raided a hotel late Tuesday night at Taksh Inn in Karol Bagh area and seized Rs 3.25 crore in old notes from five persons.

The arrests have been made in two rooms of the hotel carrying a total amount of Rs 3.25 crore, said Ravindra Yadav, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) today.

The five men are carriers and have been identified as Ansari Abuzar, Fazal Khan, Ansari Affan, Ladu Ram and Mahaveer Singh, he said.

The recovered amount was kept in different suitcases and cardboard box.It was found during interrogation that the money belongs to some Mumbai-based hawala operators, said the officer.

"They had hired packaging specialists who pack these notes in such a manner that they are even undetectable by airport scanning machines. Experts in packaging are using some tapes and wires which pass through X-ray," he said.

The Income Tax department has seized the cash and is analysing the mobile phone details of these people since their phones contain details of lot of other hawala operators, he added. 

With PTI Inputs