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The Income Tax Department (IT) on
Friday raided an Axis Bank account in Chandni Chowk, Central Delhi's and reportedly
found about 44 fake accounts. According to the National Media IT officials said
that about INR 100 Crores in old notes had been deposited in the accounts since
November 8th i.e date of the announcement of demonetisation b y PM
Narendra Modi. According to Media reports, a sum of total INR 450 Crores have
been deposited in the Chandni Chowk Branch of Axis Bank since the ban was
announced.
The IT officials said to the NDTV that
these 44 fake accounts had been created by using forged documents, the
investigators surmise that the money might have been dispel to buy gold. This was
the second as such raid to have been reported at a branch of Axis Bank. Earlier
in the last month IT officials had nabbed two people with INR 3.5 Crores of
cash in new currency notes while they tried to come out of the Kashmere Gate
branch, Central Delhi. Following the announcement of demonetisation scheme by
the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 8th, the RBI had put palpable
strict diminution regarding the sacking of the now extinct INR 500 and INR 1000
notes in bank accounts until December 30th.
