Indore: The RBI is not aware of the number of bank accounts in which more than Rs 2.5 lakh in the scrapped currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 were deposited between Nov 8 and Dec 30 last year, it has said in response to a query under the Right to Information Act, reports PTI.
“In reply to my RTI application, the Department of Currency Management of the Central bank on February 17 said it did not have the figure of bank accounts in which more than Rs 2.5 lakh were deposited in demonetised notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000,” said Chandrashekhar Gaud, an activist from Neemuch district of Madhya Pradesh.