Fake currency notes worth Rs 2 lakh were seized by the Mayurbhanj police and two persons were arrested in this connection.
District Additional SP Dinajana Naik disclosed the details of the case on Friday.
According to Naik, Rasgobindpur Police Sub-inspector Bhagavan Tarei, getting a tipoff about the fake currency notes on Wednesday afternoon, rushed, along with his staff, to nearby Manida market, where he nabbed one Tarun Kumar Jena (19), son of Baburam Jena of Kundei village under Basta block in Baleswar district, while the accused was trying to flee.
The police seized five fake currency notes (each of the denomination of Rs 2,000) from him, and one more fake currency note of Rs 2,000 was recovered from the bag of his friend Dhananjay Das, son of Panchanan Das of Rupsa, Baleswar. The police, after interrogating the two, arrested the former and lodged an FIR against him under Sections 420, 489(B) and 489(C).
Then on Thursday, getting reliable information from Tarun, Rasgobindpur Police IIC Tilottama Rout, with her police staff, raided the residence of Seikh Kalimuddin (22), son of Seikh Riyazuddin, of Bidyadharpur Mahala, Basta. From him, the police seized 94 fake notes of Rs 2,000 denomination. On inquiry, Kalimuddin revealed that he had brought the same from one Isab Ali of Malda area of West Bengal, in exchange of Rs 10,000 (genuine currency).
He had developed intimacy with Isab in Chennai, when both were working there as wall-painter and sweeper respectively, Kalimuddin said.