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Guwahati : The militant groups of North East India had used some bank accounts of tribal people of the region and Jan Dhan accounts to exchange the scraping notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 following demonetization.
A top official of Assam police said that, following the demonetization the militant groups of the region had faced huge fund crisis.
'We have found some vital clues that the militant groups of the region including ULFA(I), NSCN(K), GNLA, NDFB had used some bank accounts of tribal people and Jan Dhan accounts to exchange their scraping denominations,' the top police official said.
Recently, Meghalaya police had apprehended four persons with Rs 35 lakh old notes who tried to exchange the scraping notes of Garo outfit group GNLA to new notes.
The Karimganj district SP Pradip Ranjan Kar recently said that, around Rs 7 crore scraping notes had entered to Assam via Tripura from Bangladesh after centre's demonetization decision.
'All the currencies suspected to be carried by some agents of militant groups to exchange it with new notes,'Â Kar said.
Meanwhile, the Income Tax department is monitoring suspicious bank deposits in the region.
A top IT official said that, following the demonetization around Rs 816 crore old notes had deposited in Jan Dhan accounts alone in Assam from November 10 to December 7 last.
Not only Assam, huge denomination of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 had deposited in the Jan Dhan accounts in different states of the region,â€Â the top IT official said.
The IT official also said that, the zero balance Jan Dhan accounts in the region had dramatically reduced following demonetization.
We also monitoring about any militant group fund has been deposited in these accounts,' the top IT official said.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
