When Prime Minister had banned the use of the old 500 and 1000 Rs. notes, the economy was thrown into a lurch. But this news will shock you more.
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Saturday seized nearly Rs 50 crore worth of cash in demonetized Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency notes from the premises of a company in the GIDC area here. “Acting on specific intelligence, the officers of DRI, Surat, assisted by officers of CGST at Vadodara raided the premises of M/s Yamuna Building Material at GIDC Panoli in Bharuch and recovered demonetized currency notes of Rs 1000 and Rs 500 of the face value of Rs 48.91 crore,” the DRI said in a release.
The company faces a fine of Rs 245 crore as per the newly-enacted Specified Bank Notes (Cessation of Liabilities) Act, 2017, the release said. Section 5 of the Act bars any person from knowingly or voluntarily, holding, transferring or receiving any specified banknote after the expiry of the grace period.
Section 7 of the Act lays down that whoever contravenes the provisions of section 5 of the Act shall be punishable with fine which may extend to Rs 10,000 or five times the amount of the face value of the specified bank notes involved in the contravention, whichever is higher.
“In this case, with the demonetized currency detected by the DRI being in the order of about Rs 49 crore, the fine is expected to touch about Rs 245 crore,” it said. The DRI said that a complaint was being filed in the court against three persons and further investigation was on.
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