Jaipur, Nov 20: Ahead of festive season, the crime branch of Jaipur police commissionerate on Tuesday busted a racket involved in circulation of counterfeit currency notes. Acting on a tip off by crime branch, the Amber police in the city have arrested four persons, including three from Malda (West Bengal) and seized Rs 2,97,500. A team of Jaipur police is camping in Malda to arrest another member of counterfeit currency notes gang.
Addressing a press conference, commissioner of police Sanjay Agarwal said that crime branch had some inputs that a haul of counterfeit currency notes has arrived in Jaipur and it was to be circulated in the city ahead of festive season.
"Our team kept a vigil on a suspect Khemraj (26), a native of Jaipur. Later, it was found that he was talking to two strangers on counterfeit notes. Thus, a team of Amber police first apprehended the threesome and later arrested them," Agarwal said.
The other two persons were identified as Anarul Sheikh (40) and Aalam Momin(27), both natives of Malda. "A joint team will interrogate the accused to know more about their nexus and will also find out how much counterfeit notes they managed to circulate in the market," the commissioner added. Police said the quality of counterfeit note is good as it is hard for a layman to differentiate between the original and fake one.
"During interrogation, the two persons from Malda said that they have received the notes from one Naushad and Quyyum Sheikh, both natives of Malda. Our team is already camping in Malda and have apprehended some persons. We are likely to arrest more persons who were part of this gang," Agarwal said.
In the evening, Jaipur police succeeded in arresting Naushad in Malda with the help of local police.
"Our team managed to arrest Naushad and are coordinating with the local police in west Bengal to arrest the other accused Quyyum," said Anshuman Bhomia, deputy commissioner of police (North).Box -
Accused Khemraj was arrested by Brahmpuri police in 2010 and was convicted in the case with an imprisonment of four years. After completing his sentence, he again started the malpractice
The smugglers used to give triple of the fake currency notes in lieu of an amount. Police said if Rs 1 lakh as cash are given to the smugglers, they will in return give counterfeit currency notes of Rs 3 lakh
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