The Commissionerate Police on Saturday arrested a man for transacting fake currency notes at a mobile phone store in the Bomikhal area here.
The man identified as Md Rubel of West Bengal was residing in the Budheswari Colony area and had come to a shop at Bomikhal to buy a mobile phone. While he gave 10 notes of Rs 1000 denomination to the shopkeeper, the latter suspected it to be fake and informed the Saheed Nagar police.
The police then went to the shop and arrested the 30-year-old youth. He was interrogated to find out whether he was a part of a racket. later, six more counterfeit notes of the same denomination were recovered from him.
It may be noted that the Infocity police here had arrested two persons for possessing forged currency notes a few days ago.