The Jajpur Road police on Wednesday arrested six persons on the charge of circulating counterfeit currency notes in the district.
The cops also seized counterfeit notes of Rs 4.77 lakh of Rs 2,000, Rs 500 and Rs 200 denominations from them , said Jajpur Road SDPO Chinmay Nayak.
The arrested persons were identified as Chandramani Bal (35) of Mangalpur, Bapina Sethi (23) of Danagadi, Manoj Das (31) of Manapur, Tapan Jena (26) of Jajpur Road , Ajaya Kumar Sahoo(24) and Mayadhar Patra(64) of Bhuban in Dhenkanal district.
One of the accused Chandramani was earlier arrested in 2017 at Kaliapani of Jajpur district for circulating fake currency notes, said Nayak.
“We seized one colour printer, one paper cutter, some sheets of printing papers and other printing materials from the house of the main accused Chandramani at village Mangalpur. All the accused persons were arrested under Sections- 489( A) ( B) and (C) and 34 of IPC,” the SDPO said.
Police suspect that the accused were circulating fake currency notes in Danagadi, Bhuban, Salipur, Bhubaneswar, Bhadrak and other areas of the State. “We also suspect that the arrested persons have nexus with some fake currency racketeers of Bhubaneswar and other places,” he added.