Assam police asked banks to keep vigil for suspicious transactions

Guwahati : Assam Police asked banks in the state to keep strict track on transactions, after intelligence received information about several militant groups had tried to convert their old notes into new currency denominations following demonetisation.

Assam police urged banks during the high level meeting recently held in Guwahati attending top officials of 14 banks including Reserve Bank of India (RBI), State Bank of India (SBI).

Assam police Special DG (Law and Order) Kuladhar Saikia who chaired the meeting said that, there are so many possibilities of several outfit groups of North East India including ULFA(I), NSCN(K), NDFB(S) are trying to convert their banned notes into new notes.

"We has alerted all banks to keep strict track on any suspicious transactions," Saikia said.

The top police official said that, the outfit groups had used their old notes to pay fees of few school, college students.

The state police asked the banks to contact local police immediately if any such case of suspicious transactions have been tracked.

Recently, the Intelligence Bureau (IB) alerted the state police of all NE states that, several outfit groups of the region had used some tribal people's bank account and Jan Dhan accounts to convert the banned notes to new legal tenders.

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)