Sleuths of the Anti-Terrorists Squad (ATS) arrested four persons in Aligarh, whom they said to be involved in smuggling of Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) from Bangladesh and pumping it in Western UP town after safely transiting it from Malda Town in West Bengal. They recovered 100 fake notes of Rs 1000 denomination, and 290 notes of Rs 500 denominations from their possession.
Reports said that the ATS team which is developing inputs about a gang active in Western UP for supplying FICN, made a major breakthrough on Thursday morning. According to ADG (law and Order), Mukul Goel, the ATS team got a tip-off about presence of some gang members in Aligarh on Thursday morning so they rushed and successfully laid a trap on four of the criminals when they were waiting for supply of FICN at New Over Briedge (Mathura Road) at Sasni Gate area of Aligarh.
Those arrested were taken two local police station where they revealed their identity as Idris, a native of Salempur in Bulundshahr, Waseem, hailing from Delhigate area of Aligarh, Prosant Singh, a resident of Vaishnunagar in Malda Town at West Bengal and Anil Pramanik, also a resident of same locality of Malda Town. While FICN worth Rs 1 lakh (all in Rs 1000 denominations) has been recovered from Idris, the ATS team recovered Rs 50,000 (all in Rs 500 denominations), from Waseem, Rs 45,000 (all in Rs 500 denominations) from Prosant and Rs 50,000 (all in Rs 500 denominations) from Pramanik. The accused during interrogation revealed that they used to get the fake currency from Bangladesh and used to run it in the market through a commission agent. A case has been registered in this regard and further investigations are on to extract details of other gang members so a trap could be laid on them also.