A Gujarat-based road constructor, who was looted of Rs 3.5 crore while trying to get new currency notes to give his employees Diwali bonus, has claimed that a couple of cops are involved in the racket. He further said that Navi Mumbai cops were trying to get him to settle the matter and that it was only after he approached the Navi Mumbai police commissioner that a case was registered. Cops, however, said that they are investigating the matter and have not found any involvement of cops. One arrest has been made in the case so far. 

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The complainant, Babu Jayesh Singh Thakur, 45, said that one Ajay Mishra generally helps him in acquiring new notes and he called him for the same in August as usual. Mishra, in turn, introduced Thakur to one Vishal Viroja who has a friend working with the RBI treasury. Viroja told Thakur that he, too, needed to exchange old currency notes of Rs 1.5 crore and offered to travel together to Navi Mumbai.