Rs26m in new notes among over Rs130m seized from Delhi law firm

New Delhi: The total amount of seizure in the raid by the city police at a law firm in southeast Delhi's GK-I area on Sunday neared Rs135 million of which Rs 26 million was in new banknotes released after demonetisation, a senior police official said.
The raid was carried out by Crime Branch at the office of T&T Law Firm on Saturday night, the officer said.
"The recovered amount is close to Rs135 million. Out of the recovered money, Rs 70 million is in the form of demonetised Rs 1,000 notes. "Rs 30 million is in the form of Rs 100 notes and Rs 26.1 million is in the form of Rs2,000 denominations. Rest of the cash is in the form of Rs 50 and Rs 500 denominations," said Ravindra Yadav, joint commissioner of police (Crime).
When the police team raided the office, the rooms were locked and a caretaker was present.
"It's probably one of the several office premises which was mainly used as cash godown guarded by just one guard," said the officer. Police said that more cash was likely to be recovered in the follow-up raids.
The Income Tax department has been informed and will be probing the case ahead. Police said that the law firm whose office was raided belongs to Rohit Tandon. According to I-T department sources, the lawyer had recently declared unaccounted income worth over Rs 1.25 billion after searches were carried out against him.