Ahmedabad: Two persons were arrested with scraped currency notes having a face value of Rs 86.07 lakh from near Patidar Plaza in Mehsana town on Thursday. The accused were identified as Kishor Ode of Kheralu and Vijaysinh Rathod of Vadnagar, both from Mehsana district.
According to the Mehsana local crime branch official, they had got information that two persons were looking to exchange old demonetized currency notes in the town. So, an LCB official contacted the accused saying that he would exchange the old currency notes with the old ones. The accused took the bait and reached Patidar Plaza to exchange the old notes and got caught.