The Brahmapur police on Friday busted a fake currency printing unit and arrested four persons allegedly involved in printing and selling fake currencies in the city.
The fake currency unit was printing short denominations of Rs100 and Rs50 to escape from the public suspicion, said Brahmapur SP Sarthak Sarangi at a Press meet here.
Sarangi said they raided four places in the city after getting reliable tip-offs from the public. A team comprising staffs of five police stations led by Brahmapur SDPO PK Patnaik conducted raids at Ankuli, Gosaninuagaon and Sadananda Vihar here. The arrested were identified as Chandramani Panigrahy, Gita Pradhan, Susant Samal and Niranjan Behera.
The accused confessed that they had printed fake currencies amounting to Rs2 lakh. The police seized fake currencies amounting to Rs1.86 lakh from their possession.