During the ongoing elections in Madhya Pradesh the circulation of fake currency has given an alarm bell to the Indore police as the police in Mhow caught three youths carrying Rs 20,000 cash fake currency and trying to circulate in gram panchayat kodariya area.
Mhow ASP Nagendra Singh told The Pioneer that information was received about these youths that was immediately passed on to DIG Indore Harinarayanchari Mishra and SP West Indore Siddharth Bahuguna. SDOP Mhow Vinod Sharma formed a team under the TI Badgonda Mhow Arun Solanki.
The team caught the three youths Abdul Wahab alias Lalu age 45 years of Hammal Mohalla in Mhow, Mohd Asif, 35 of Gangalakhedi Mhow and third is Nihal, 33 of Ujjain district. All the fake notes were in the form of Rs 100. Abdul Wahab and Abdul Aziz told the police that few days back they have gone to Ujjain where they met Nihal who supplied them these notes to circulate in local areas and village markets.
The police are investigating the matter thoroughly. All the three accused are booked under IPC section 420, 467, 468, 471, 489 A 489 b and 489 C.
ASP Mhow Nagendra Singh told that we are trying to find that who are the masterminds and whether these accused have been supplied these fake currency from across the border or they print themselves with the portable high quality printing machine. The water mark displaying the image of Mahatam Gandhi is missing from these fake Currency notes and the vertical line towards the right hand side of currency doesn’t change colour in light. The paper used for the fake currency is little thin then the original currency note.