ED raids four locations in Tripura, seizes Bangladeshi, Indian cash
The Hindu
Taka worth ₹30 lakh and ₹22 lakh currency recovered
Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted simultaneous raids at four different places in Tripura on Tuesday and recovered huge cash of unaccounted Indian and Bangladeshi currencies. The ED booked the offenders under the Foreign Exchange Management Act 1999 in connection with the raids conducted jointly with the State police. Sepahijala District Superintendent of Police Krishnendu Chakraborty informed that huge amounts of Bangladeshi and Indian currencies were recovered from the house of Gour Saha at Durgapur village in Sonamura sub-division. “ED and our team seized Bangladeshi currency worth ₹30 lakh and Indian currency amounting ₹22 lakh”, he told the Hindu. Mr. Chakraborty, however, said the second raid at Boxanagar on the Bangladesh border yielded nothing. Joint teams of the ED and police also conducted raids at two locations in Agartala. They seized cash amounting ₹5 lakh from a foreign currency exchange centre at Ramnagar locality.More Related News