Acting on a tip-off, police raided a private lodge under City Kotwali on Thursday night and seized counterfeit currency notes with a face value of around Rs1 lakh.
Police got the information that three persons staying in Vaishnao Devi Dharmshala near Purohit lodge on Upper Road under City Kotwali were engaged in running fake currency notes in the local market. Police nabbed the trio.
They were identified as Ramhari Sharma(35), Baljeet(25) and Anju Mishra(40) — all from Bareilly. An amount of Rs94,000 was seized from their persons, police said.
Subsequently, a case has been registered by City Kotwali Haridwar under the 489 (c) of IPC.