Politician held for carrying several lakhs in ₹2,000 notes
Mahesh Sharma, a politician who contested the 2016 West Bengal Assembly elections on a BJP ticket, was arrested by police on Tuesday on charges of money laundering. The police recovered several lakhs in new ₹2,000 currency notes and also took suspected members of a coal mafia into custody. It is unclear whether Sharma is still a BJP member, reports said.