Two returning from Kartarpur Sahib held with Pak currency

Gurdaspur, Sep 6 (IANS) Border Security Force (BSF) arrested a man along with his 82-year-old grandmother at Integrated Check Post (ICP) at Dera Baba Nanak in Punjab's Gurdaspur district, and recovered Rs 1 and Rs 2 lakh Pakistani currency respectively from their possession.Both of were returning from Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, Kartarpur Sahib, Pakistan on late Monday evening when they were apprehended.According to sources, both Pawan, a Gurdaspur resident and his grandmother Bawi Devi, had earlier visited Pakistan in March and claimed that the money was given to them as a gift by Sohail Kumar, son of Bawi Devi's brother who didn't migrate to India during Indo-Pak partition, and instead chose to stay back in Pakistan.While not ruling out the possibility of the use of Pak money for espionage purposes, a senior BSF official informed that both of them had been handed over to the police for further investigations.
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