The Delhi Police Crime Branch busted a syndicate of fake currency and recovered Rs 1.6 lakh in the denomination of Rs 2,000 notes.

Alok Kumar, Joint Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch, said, “The team of Special Investigation Unit (SIU) busted a syndicate involved in procuring and supplying Counterfeit Currency Notes in and around Delhi. The arrested accused have been identified as Munish Ahmad.”

The officer said the team on January 14 had received information regarding the supply of counterfeit currency notes in and around Delhi.

A team under ACP Sandeep lamba laid a trap near Shiv Mandir, Pardabag Market in Daryaganj.   Munish was caught with Rs 1.6 lakh counterfeit currency notes of Rs 2,000 denomination. 

During sustained interrogation, the accused disclosed that he works as an electrician. In 2014, while he was in Tihar jail, he came in contact with other criminals.

“In 2015, Ahmad started supplying counterfeit Indian Currency Notes in and around Delhi by procuring it from one Rohit of Patna. Eventually, he started supplying counterfeit currency notes from Patna and Farakka in West Bengal,” said Kumar.

“The recovered counterfeit Indian Currency Notes of Rs 2,000 denomination are of very fine quality and it is not easy to detect them in one go.

As per investigation conducted so far it came out that such fine quality Counterfeit Indian Currency Notes are routed to Delhi-NCR from Bangladesh via Malda or Farakka in West Bengal and Patna,” the Joint Commissioner said adding  that they are working on identifying the source of the illegal currency notes.