Overview
- Police in Indore, alerted by a farmer on Thursday morning, seized three abandoned bags on the Sanwer–Ujjain road that held 566 bundles resembling ₹500 notes.
- Expert checks found only 84 genuine notes worth ₹42,000, overturning an initial visual estimate of about ₹2.83 crore.
- Most bundles were packed to deceive with real ₹500 notes on the top and bottom and plain paper inside, and 133 bundles were only paper with edges painted to look like currency.
- Investigators are reviewing highway CCTV and continuing forensic checks to identify who prepared or dumped the bags, and no arrests have been announced.
- Police suspect the stash was built for fraud, a common scam tactic that uses a few real notes to pass a quick glance during cash deals and cheat victims out of large sums.