The Special cell of Delhi Police arrested three men who supplied fake new currency to bookies on Friday.
The accused were identified as Azad Singh (36), Manoj (37) and Sunil (27).
On January 27 the accused were arrested on the basis of a tip off that they would assemble near traffic signal light, Village Singhola, Narela at NH-1 around 11:00 pm in Scorpio car and would exchange Fake / Counterfeit currency with their associates.
“At about 11:25 pm, the scorpio car was located by the team parked near the traffic light signal. Azad Singh was seen occupying the scorpio car alone. After a short while, Manoj and Sunil reached there on a motor cycle. Singh stepped out from the car and delivered two packets, one each to Manoj and Sunil. Wasting no time, the raiding party cordoned the trio and overpowered them after a brief scuffle,” police said.
Both the packets were found containing fake and counterfeit currency worth Rs 8 lakh each whereas accused Azad Singh was further found in possession of Rs 2 lakh of fake currency. All the recovered 18 lacs of fake currency was in the denomination of Rs 2,000. The recovered notes were actually scanned and printed one but very much resemble with the genuine notes.
Police claimed that few anti-national elements took it as an opportunity to befool the general public by trying to circulate fake notes of high value new currency taking the advantage of the inexperience of general public who do not exactly differentiate between genuine and fake new currency notes.
The arrested accused persons are members of one such racket who started preparing and circulating counterfeit new currency for their own benefit.