Delhi Police Gets Over 750 Calls From People Anxious Over New Notes

New Delhi: Delhi Police had a busy day today as they pacified anxious people and played peacemaker for people who had made a beeline to exchange and deposit Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes after the Government decided to demonetise them.

Sanjay Beniwal, Special Commissioner of police (Operations) said, "We got close to 750 calls from anxious people regarding their notes not being exchanged or banks running out of cash. There were no untoward incidents reported."

Police played peacemaker in case of a disagreement arising between two parties.

"We got calls in our district over issues like bank hasn't opened, the bank closed down early, bank staff not having cash or people being pushed out of the queue. There were minor issues that arose and we pacified the situation. In some cases, the bank staff made the call and in some, people made calls," said DCP(North) Madhur Verma.

In North district, a peon who was sent by his owner to get the notes exchanged was duped by a man.

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"After exchanging the notes, when he was coming out, when someone asked him to show the notes. When that person returned the notes to the peon, the latter didn't count them and after he handed over the notes to his owner, it was found that there were less notes," said a senior police officer, adding that till now, they hadn't received a formal complaint in the matter.

Romil Baaniya, DCP (Southeast) said that police ensured that small quarrels didn't get out of hand. He said that minor scuffles were reported but police presence ensured that there were no major incidents.

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Apart from banks, there will be police deployment at ATMs tomorrow. There will be continuous supervision of the area by senior officers and adequate police patrolling will be there, said Dependra Pathak, Delhi Police spokesperson and joint commissioner of police (Southwest).