GRP seize hawala cash Rs 29.67L at PDDU Junction in UP
RPF
caught a carrier, Mafizul Sheikh, from a compartment of the Gurumukhi Express following the recovery of unaccounted cash worth Rs 29.67 lakh at Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction in Chandauli district after Sunday night.
Income Tax officials were investigating the matter.
GRP Inspector Sunil Kumar Singh said that when the Kolkata-bound Gurumukhi Express train reached PDDU Junction after midnight, he and RPF Inspector Pradeep Kumar Rawat, along with their teams, started checking its bogies as part of an alert sounded in view of the Shrawan month crowd. During the same drive, they reached a compartment where a youth identified as Mafizul Sheikh, a resident of Rampur Hat district, Birbhum, West Bengal, tried to escape on seeing men in khaki heading towards him.
On seeing this, the GRP and RPF personnel caught him and checked his bag, in which cash amounting to Rs 29.67 lakh was recovered. As he failed to produce any document in support of the huge cash being carried by him, he was taken to the GRP station, and officials of the Income Tax Department were called from Varanasi for further investigation.
He divulged that he boarded the Gurumukhi Express train from Nangal Dam to reach Kolkata for delivering the cash. However, he could not reveal the name of the person who gave him the cash or those who were to receive this amount from him in Kolkata.
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