A police operation in Baraipur Rampur village led to the recovery of three drums filled with currency notes (Representative image generated using AI)
DCP (Trans-Ganga) Sonam Kumar said the drums were hidden in a field belonging to two men. He, however, said, “Cops have already informed the department concerned for the counting of currency seized by the police and are questioning the landowners to find out the rightful owner of the money. The DCP said police teams, after receiving inputs that two men had buried a huge amount of stolen currency in their fields, carried out a search operation. Insiders told TOI that police had received inputs that drums stuffed with currency notes worth crores of rupees were hidden in the field of Rakesh Yadav alias Mahakal.
Police are questioning the landowners, identified as Rakesh Yadav and Rajesh Yadav, about the drums. Joint police teams led by ACP Phulpur and ACP Soraon seized three drums stuffed with currency notes while videographing the entire exercise. The seized currency was deposited in the police malkhana (storehouse) concerned after being sealed. Following this, two special police teams swung into action and cordoned off the entire village while carrying out a raid and search operation. It took more than four hours to complete the search operation and seize the money.