The District Crime Branch here arrested five persons for circulating counterfeit notes in the district. The five accused Rajkumar Sonwani (22), Kamlesh Sonwani (19), Motilal Kosle (27), Jageshwar Ratre (34) and David Walter (46) have been booked under Section 489 (a), (b) and (c) of Indian Penal Code.
Currency notes of Rs 79000 in the denomination of Rs 1,000 and Rs 5,000 along with three mobile handsets have been recovered in the incident Superintendent of Police Deepak Jha and Additional Superintendent of Police Rajesh Kukreja informed reporters here in a press conference that that on Sunday morning, they were tipped of about two persons discussing about counterfeit notes near Bhoring chowk in Tumgaon.
A team of Crime Branch personnel including Head Constable Praveen Shukla, Vikas Sharma ad Prakash Nand, led by Crime Branch in-charge Subhash Pawar, cordoned of the area and arrested the persons. The two were identified as Rajkumar Sonwani and Kamlesh Sonwani.
On interrogation, the two disclosed that the currency notes were given by Motilal Kosle, a resident of Tenduwahi village. Soon Motilal was also taken into custody. He reported of giving counterfeit notes valued Rs 80000 to Jageshwar Ratre and Rajkumar Sonwani.