Two more persons have been arrested from Parth area near Nepal border for their alleged involvement in circulation of fake currency notes and have seized notes worth Rs15,000 from their possession.
With the arrest of the two accused the number of offenders involved in the case reached four and the total fake currency notes reached the value of Rs1.93 lakh. The two arrested have been identified as Gaisul Alam and Zobaad Khan of Nepal. Around 15 notes in the denomination of Rs1000 were recovered from their possession. Gaisul Alam works as a tailor, while Zobaad Khan used to work at mobile repairing work. The crime branch team after getting information regarding the involvement of two youths in circulation of counterfeit notes posing as customers of fake notes reached Parth area and contacted the two accused. It was decided to provide fake notes worth Rs1 lakh in return of Rs45,000 genuine Indian currency and when the two brought Rs15,000 as a sample, they were nabbed.
Earlier, Rizwan was nabbed with counterfeit notes worth Rs65,000 and later in the investigation based on the information Khursheed Alam of Bihar was nabbed from Bhopal railway station and recovered fake currency notes worth Rs1.10 from his possession. In the further investigation connecting the links provided by the nabbed accused, the crime branch team succeeded in nabbing the youths from Nepal border area. The nabbed accused would be grilled regarding the nexus involved in the fake currency notes circulation and it is possible that in the investigation other accomplices involved in the network would be caught.