Assam: Over 10,000 bank accounts under IT radar
A top IT official said that, the department has scanned all transactions of these accounts after demonetisation.
"We have asked several bank branches to submit the details of those accounts where huge amount of banned notes deposited since November 10 last," the top IT official said.
"We have also made tight vigil in bank branches after huge quantity of legal tenders of Rs 2000 seized from various locations in the state in recent time," the IT official said.
On Dec 12, at around Rs 1.55 crore in new currency notes were seized from a businessman's house in Guwahati during a joint operation launched by IT department and Assam police CID.
The huge amount of new currency notes were seized from the house of Hardeep Singh Bedi.
The top IT official said that, the businessman and the ward councillor revealed that the new currency denominations were parked in his house with the help of some bank officials.
"We have been taken the matter seriously and to probe for collecting more evidence," the IT official said.
Guwahati city police had seized Rs 20 lakh in new currency notes and arrested four persons from Hatigaon area in the city last week.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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