A 41-year-old man has been arrested by the Delhi Police Special cell for supplying fake Indian currency notes. Police had kept a reward of Rs 1 lakh on his arrest.
Pramod Singh Kushwah, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Special cell, said, “A team of Special Cell arrested Narendra alias secretary, a resident of Rohtak in Haryana. During interrogation, he disclosed that he used to procure these FICNs as well as drugs from Kaliachak, Malda from different sources, who used to smuggle these FICNs from Pakistan via Bangladesh border.
Police said they had been working for past few months to bust gangs involved in the circulation of fake Indian Currency notes.
Narender is a hardcore criminal and regular trafficker of fake currency. He has been arrested three times by the Haryana police in 2013-14.
In 2016 also, Special Cell arrested him with fake currency worth Rs 3 lakh in the denomination of Rs 1000. After he was released from jail on bail, Special Cell was continuously monitoring his movement. During monitoring, it came to notice that Narender along with another Narender has gone to Kaliachak, Malda in West Bengal to procure new fake currency.
While the other Narender was apprehended on January 12, Narender aka Secretary was absconding.
Kushwah said that the team were tipped off that Narender will be going to meet his family on May 31. “Based on this input, our team laid a trap in Rohtak and caught him.”
FICN worth Rs 30,000 in the denomination of Rs 2,000 were found from his possession.
On enquiry, he told police that he had disposed off the FICN consignment while he was on run. During sustained interrogation, Narender Kumar revealed that in 1998, he robbed Rs. 1 lack 75 thousands from Rahul Electronics, which is behind Rohtak Court with his associates Neelam, Purshottam and Jitender. Till date he is involved in more than 30 cases of Robbery, Dacoity, Arms Act and FICNs, registered against him in Delhi, Rajasthan and Haryana. In two cases, he has been convicted.