Police have seized Rs. 13 lakh demonetised Rs. 1,000 notes, packed in a bundle as if it contained mobile phones and transported on a Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation bus. After a source informed the police that ganja was being transported on a Madurai-Rameswaram government bus, a special team from Prohibition and Enforcement Wing (PEW), acting on the orders of Superintendent of Police N. Manivannan, checked the bus and seized the currencies on Friday.
The team, led by Additional Superintendent of Police S. Vellaidurai, searched the bus at the bus stand here and detained V. Nithynanandan (42), a realtor, who arrived to receive the bundle. He told the police that one Bhugari from Madurai had sent the currencies to be handed over to his contacts here.
