The Crime branch of Bhopal have successfully nabbed a 65-year-old man involved in circulating counterfeit notes and seized fake currency of Rs65,000 from Retgaht area on Tuesday.
After crime branch Bhopal received a tip off regarding involvement of a person in producing counterfeit notes and on the receipt of the information a team reached the spot and nabbed the accused.Rizwan Ahmed of Retgaht was nabbed by the crime branch police after tracking his movements for the past few days. The movements were tracked after receiving information of involvement of the accused in circulation of counterfeit notes.
Interestingly the accused works as a property dealer and it was hinted that he would use counterfeit notes to purchase land and deal was scheduled at Iqbal Maidan. The crime branch police reached the spot and started waiting for the accused to make payment and after sometime Rizwan arrive at the spot but after waiting for around no one arrived for the deal after which the accused started to count the counterfeit notes and while he was counting the counterfeit notes of Rs25,000 he was nabbed by the crime branch police.
When the accused was questioned he said that he had withdrawn the money from his bank account but failed to provide details of the bank and confessed that the counterfeit notes and are brought from Bihar and later counterfeit notes of Rs40,000 were recovered from his house.