District crime branch arrested a youth hailing from Maharashtra and seized counterfeit currency notes from his possession, informed Superintend of Police Mahasamund Neethu Kamal on Saturday.
However, two of his accomplices manage to gave cops a slip, police said. According to police the accused was identified as Bantu Shravan hailing from Gadhshivni, Maharashtra. He was nabbed at railway station platform number-2 with fake currency notes on a precise tip off. “In all 13 counterfeit notes of Rs 500 and 2 Rs 100 notes were seized from his possession on Friday night,” informed the Station House Officer Kotwali. The raid was conducted on precise information provided to police that three persons were at the railway station with fake currency notes, police said. A team was formed with raided the spot and rounded up Bantu Shravan.
However two of his friends managed to escape from the site, police said. Police further informed that some chemicals, paper exactly the size of currency note, ATM card and mobile phone were sized from his possession. The chemicals are used in making counterfeit notes, police claimed. A case in this connection has been registered with Kotwali police station.The accused was later presented in local court that sent him to jail on judicial remand.