The Delhi Police Special Cell has busted an international syndicate which was allegedly involved in procuring and pumping in of fake currency notes into India. Four men have been arrested and such notes with a face value of Rs 8.48 lakh in a denomination of Rs 2000 notes have been seized.
The fake currency notes were pushed into India through Nepal and Bangladesh from Indo-Bangla border in Malda district of West Bengal. The accused were arrested after they already circulated more than 60-70 lakh fake Indian currency notes (FICNs) in different parts of country, including Bihar, Haryana, Delhi-NCR
The arrested persons have been identified as Farooq (27), Shariful Islam (21) both residents of district Malda (West Bengal), Asif Raj (27) resident of Motihari (Bihar) and Mukhtiar Ahmed (28) a resident of village Birgha Chapkaiyan in Parsha district of Nepal.
According to Pramod Singh Kushwaha, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Special Cell, they have received a specific input regarding the international syndicate of FICN operations following which inputs were gathered and after four months of surveillance on their movement and operations when finally on November 21, one of the key member of syndicate Farooq was arrested from Siri Fort bus stand in Delhi.
"On his instance, other members were also nabbed by the team with fake currency mounting to Rs 8.48 lakh in their possession. During interrogation, it has been revealed that accused Farooq and Shariful are partners in this syndicate. Arrested persons have been indulging in FICN circulation for the last about 8 years," said the DCP.
"Accused Shariful disclosed that he collected the FICN of Rs 6 Lakhs from his contact in District Malda and came to Delhi to deliver the same to Farooq at Siri Fort Road and also to one Asif Raj. Accused Farooq and Shariful used to visit Bangladesh Border for procuring FICNs from their Bangladeshi counterparts. Mukhtiar Ahmed used to handover the consignments of FICN to Shariful and Asif in Raxual, near Indo-Nepal border. Mukhtiar Ahmed used to get supply of FICN from two persons of Beerganj (Nepal)," said the DCP.
"At the first sight, it is difficult to distinguish the recovered fake currency notes with the original ones as they even have security features like water marks," said the DCP adding that further interrogation is going on.