Old notes

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In Thane, Old notes are resurfacing everywhere. While the police is making regular seizures, early on Saturday morning, municipal cleaners found Old notes in denominations of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 clogging a sewage pipe in Naupada.

There will be specified fines ranging from Rs 5,000 to Rs 50,000 for continued possession of the demonetised notes. The fine will be a multiple of the number of notes found in possession beyond the permissible limit — 10 for souvenirs and 25 for the purpose of numismatics.

The police on Friday seized Rs 1 crore in old currency of Rs 1,000 notes which were scrapped during demonetization. Acting on a tip off, the police laid a trap in Anand Nagar on Friday evening and caught six men with the money in three bags.

The penalty for holding old currency in excess of 10 notes may include financial fines and a jail term of up to 4 years in certain cases. The ordinance has been cleared, but will the penal provisions apply for holding the junked currency after the 50-day window to deposit them, isn't clear yet.

The wait for individuals in the state capital, especially those living on the peripheral areas in private residential colonies under municipal limits, for piped water connection is likely to get longer.

Adding to the confusion prevailing over depositing Old notes, a few banks in the city are now refusing to accept Rs 50 and Rs 100 notes issued before 2005.

The Thane crime branch has seized Rs 46 lakh scrapped currency notes of 500 and 1000 denomination from Naupada area.

More than Rs 35,000 crore of stashed cash was pulled out of hidden lockers of corporates and individuals and deposited in 25 major banks within 60 days of demonetisation in Madhya Pradesh, reveal documents accessed by TOI.