Dharamsala: A tug of war is on between two security agencies over the possession of seized foreign and Indian currency worth Rs70 million from the monastery of the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje.
The Himachal Pradesh state police and the central government's Enforcement Directorate (ED) are independently investigating the case to get to the bottom of the recovery of unaccounted currency. On January 28, police recovered the currency of 26 countries, including Chinese yuan and Indian rupees, from the Karmapa's Gyuto Tantric University and Monastery, on the outskirts of this town, from where Dalai Lama heads his government-in-exile.
The ED is now trying to lay its hands on the currency that is in the possession of the state police.
It moved a court in Una town, where the case of recovery of unaccounted currency was registered, to get the money. The court of the chief judicial magistrate (CJM) on March 31 directed the police to hand over the currency to the ED.
But the police have moved the sessions court against the CJM's decision.
The Himachal Pradesh state police and the central government's Enforcement Directorate (ED) are independently investigating the case to get to the bottom of the recovery of unaccounted currency. On January 28, police recovered the currency of 26 countries, including Chinese yuan and Indian rupees, from the Karmapa's Gyuto Tantric University and Monastery, on the outskirts of this town, from where Dalai Lama heads his government-in-exile.
The ED is now trying to lay its hands on the currency that is in the possession of the state police.
It moved a court in Una town, where the case of recovery of unaccounted currency was registered, to get the money. The court of the chief judicial magistrate (CJM) on March 31 directed the police to hand over the currency to the ED.
But the police have moved the sessions court against the CJM's decision.
