Mohali police seize Rs 95 lakh at nakas

Tribune News Service

Mohali, January 19

The Mohali police today confiscated Rs 95 lakh at two nakas here.

At a naka, laid in view the coming Assembly elections, at Phase 3A on the Chandigarh-Mohali border, the police recovered Rs 80 lakh from a private Swift Dzire car. The occupants of the car could not produce documents related to the amount.

The car driver, identified as Nepal Singh, claimed that the amount and the car belonged to Allahabad Bank and the amount was being transferred from Chandigarh to Tohana in Haryana.

The police recovered Rs 15 lakh from two persons, Anjani Kumar and Sahil Balana, at a naka at Dholan Wale Chowk in Phase VI.

Both persons claimed that they were employees of a private bank and the money was being transferred from Chandigarh to Ropar.

Since the persons failed to produce documents in both cases, the police confiscated the amount and informed the flying squad of the EC.