Belagavi police have decided to work together with officers from Maharashtra and Goa in the search for missing trucks containing high value currency notes.
Maharashtra CM, Devendra Fadnavis, has constituted a Special Investigation Team led by Aditya Mirkhelkar, Superintendent of Police. SIT wrote to officers in Karnataka and Goa to cooperate with its team members. Belagavi SP K. Ramarajan deputed a team of Belagavi police who arrived in Nashik on Sunday (January 25, 2026).
This follows a case filed in the Nashik police station. Based on a complaint by a Maharashtra-based businessman, Sandip Datta Patil, officers from Nashik police station have registered a case of the theft of two container trucks containing notes. According to the complaint, miscreants from Mumbai waylaid two trucks containing between ₹400 crore and ₹1,000 crore in the Chorla Ghat jungles, on the Karnataka-Goa border. The alleged offence occurred on the night of October 25.
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Complainant Mr. Patil claimed the money belonged to Kishore Savla Seth, a builder, who has investments in Goa and Mumbai. He also claimed the trucks contained some demonetised notes.
