On opening them, it was found that they were full of Rs 5 and Rs 2 coins. When the officials sought details about the coins from the person who was carrying it, he could not provide any documents relating to the legality of the money and the entire amount was seized, said sources.It took more than three hours for the officials to count the total number of coins after the seizure, added sources.Of the total amount, there were around 1.25 lakh coins of Rs2 denomination worth around Rs 2.5 lakh and 60,000 coins of Rs 5 denomination amounting to Rs 3 lakh, said sources. BHOPAL: In an interesting catch, electoral officers seized coins worth Rs 5.5 lakh in the denomination of Rs 5 and Rs 2, which were being transported illegally in a bus at Guna district on Sunday morning.The total weight of the 1.85 lakh coins, which were kept in 16 gunny bags is more than 1,079 kilogram!Guna collector and district election officer B Vijay Dutta said, “The coins were being transported on a bus with the registration number UP-92 T 9455, which was on its way to Surat in Gujarat from Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh and was detected at around 6am by the static surveillance team”.“The coins were being carried by a person identified as Pervez, a resident of Kanpur”, Dutta added.“The surveillance team handed over the coins to the local police for further action,” Dutta said, adding that there were some silver coins too.Sources said the surveillance team officials developed doubts when they found the gunny bags to be extremely heavy.
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