The Special Cell of Delhi Police has arrested a 29-year-old man, alleged to be a key member of a Malda based fake Indian currency note syndicate, near Delhi’s Anand Vihar railway station.
The accused identified as Abdul Rahim, a resident of West Bengal’s Malda has been smuggling Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICNs) from Bangladesh for long time.
According to Sanjeev Kumar Yadav, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Special Cell since the last few months, they had been receiving information about the Malda based syndicates, involved in smuggling of FICNs through Indo-Bangladesh border, to Delhi and adjoining states.
“Based on a specific input, a trap was laid and our team nabbed Abdul Rahim from near Anand Vihar railway station on April 16, where he waiting to deliver a huge consignment of FICNs to his Delhi based contact. On cursory search of his bag, FICNs of face value worth Rs. eight lakhs in the denomination of Rs.2000 and Rs.500 were recovered and seized from his possession,” said the DCP.
Inerrogation revealed that in 2018, while working as mason at a person named Nasruddin’s house, he offered him to deliver fake Indian currency notes to make easy money. He initially earned Rs. 3,000 per delivery, he said.
“Nasruddin used to collect FICNs from suppliers based near Indo-Bangladesh border, who smuggled FICN from Bangladesh through cross-border smugglers. After sometimes, Rahim also accompanied Nasruddin to collect FICN from the Indo-Bangladesh border based suppliers. They both collected several consignments of FICN from there and further supplied to their associates based in different parts of India during past three years. For past some months, Rahim was getting Rs. One lakh of FICN as his share on delivery of Rs. eight Lakhs or more to their different contacts,” said the DCP.
During his visit to Bangladesh, Rahim also came in contact with one Tiku and started smuggling FICNs from him, he said.
During lockdown period, Nasruddin, Rahim and the members of their network could not smuggle FICNs but after the lockdown was over, Rahim and Nasruddin collected huge amount of FICN and supplied to their different contacts with the help of their contacts in Bihar, UP and other parts of India, the DCP added.