Cops dig up cremation ground in black money hunt, find old clothes instead

JAIPUR: In their quest to seize black money, the Rajasthan police is leaving no stone unturned. In Sriganganagar, cops rushed to a local 'shamshaan ghat (cremation ground)' on receiving information that sacks filled with scrapped currency notes had been buried there.
Gurmel Singh, in charge of Lalgarh police station, sent a team to unearth the currency notes. "Some villagers had informed us that black money had been buried at the cremation ground.Soon word spread through the village and a huge crowd gathered at the spot," he said.
Singh and his men arrived at the spot but did not find anything.
"The villagers asked us to dig a hole in a vacant plot adjacent to the cremation ground. We found three sacks," Singh said.
The excited cops had hoped to find a trove of demonetised banknotes so that they too could share the limelight in which their counterparts in Alwar had been basking. But, as fate would have it, all they found in the three sacks were bundles of socks, shirts and other garments.
The clothing items had been stolen from a village garment shop a few days ago and the thieves had buried their loot near the cremation ground. The dejected cops quickly returned to their police station and promised villagers they would catch the thieves as soon as possible.
Police sources said several informers and locals have been providing false information about black money.