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9.72 lakh persons have deposited Rs 2.89 lakh crore in 13.33 lakh accounts post demonetisation, the I-T department said.
Talking about return of 99 percent of junked currency into banking system, Jaitley said that money has now been identified with its owner.
It also said that barring Rs 100, the detection of counterfeit notes increased across denominations - notably, Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 -- during the last fiscal.
The Reserve Bank revealed in its annual report for 2016-17 that Rs 15.28 lakh crore, or 99 percent of the Rs 15.44-lakh-crore scrapped currency notes, had come back to the central bank between the government’s demonetisation decision and June 30, 2017.
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