Fake currency seized in Tripura, two held

October 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 24-year-old man has been arrested here with fake Indian currency with nominal value of Rs.44,350, police said Thursday. Alok Kumar Singh, who hails from Bihar, was arrested Wednesday from near an ice cream booth in Patparganj in east Delhi, and the fake currency notes in the denomination of Rs.50 and Rs.100 were seized from him.

October 5th, 2009 MEERUT - A 28-year-old man was arrested Monday from Meerut district in Uttar Pradesh with fake Indian currency notes of Rs.2 lakh, police said. "Rajveer was arrested from the main Meerut city on a tip-off and fake currency mostly in the denomination of Rs.50 was recovered from him," Superintendent of Police (city) P.P.

September 29th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Police Tuesday arrested a man in the Uttar Pradesh capital and recovered fake Indian currency with the nominal value of Rs.500,000 from his possession. Girijesh Yadav was arrested from the Manak Nagar area of the city, based on information divulged by one of his associates, Arif, whom police arrested a couple of days ago, police spokesperson A.K.

September 29th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Four people were arrested Tuesday in Orissa's Rayagada district with Rs.165,000 in fake currency, police said. They were arrested near Gunpur town, about 70 km from the district headquarters of Rayagada with counterfeit currency notes, mostly of Rs.500 denominations, A.K.

September 28th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Two people were arrested Monday in Itawah district of Uttar Pradesh with Rs.8.5 lakh in fake currency, police said. Akhilesh Rajpoot and Kalka Prasad were nabbed by the Special Operations Group (SOG) from Bakeshwar locality of Itawah.

September 10th, 2009 AGARTALA - Paramilitary Assam Rifles troopers arrested three people and recovered fake Indian currency with a face value of Rs.350,000, officials said Thursday. A police spokesperson said that Assam Rifles troopers late Wednesday arrested three people while they were transacting the counterfeit notes of Rs.500 denomination at Kanchanpur in northern Tripura, 170 km north of here.

September 9th, 2009 RAIPUR - A 19-year-old man has been arrested with fake currency notes of over Rs.200,000 in this Chhattisgarh capital, police said Wednesday. Sheikh Borjaha was held with fake currency notes of denominations of Rs.1,000 and Rs.500 at a hotel here Tuesday night, Superintendent of Police (Raipur) Amit Kumar told reporters.

August 21st, 2009 CHANDIGARH - A student from a Punjab town who had come to seek admission in a leading college here was Friday arrested after 23 fake currency notes were recovered from his possession. The student, Ashish Buteja, had come to secure admission to the DAV College in Sector 10 here.

August 18th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Gujarat police is probing Pakistani links of the four people arrested in Godhra town last month with fake currency nominally worth Rs.10.25 lakh, a home department official said Tuesday. "It is now certain from preliminary investigations that the fake currency that had been seized by the ATS July 31 had arrived from the Nepal route and the persons arrested have Pakistani links," the official said here, speaking on condition of anonymity.

August 17th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Two men allegedly involved in smuggling of counterfeit currency notes into the country from Nepal were arrested in Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh, police said Monday. Pramod Singh and Babadeen, both in their mid 20s, have confessed that they collected the consignment of fake currency notes -- supplied from Pakistan -- in Nepal.

August 3rd, 2009 NAWANSHAHR - Punjab Police claimed to have busted an inter-state gang of smugglers of fake currency with international links with the arrest of four people, including a Nepali here Monday. Counterfeit currency notes with the face value of Rs.565,000 have been recovered from their possession.

August 2nd, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Chandigarh city police Sunday claimed to have busted an inter-state gang of fake currency smugglers, allegedly linked to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Police arrested a widow from Punjab's Amritsar town early Sunday and seized fake currency notes with the total face value of Rs.480,000 from her possession.

July 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Law enforcement agencies seized fake Indian currency notes (FICN) with the face value of Rs.148 million in 2008 - an amount nearly double of what was recovered in 2007, a senior Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officer said here Friday. According to the official, FICN with the face value of Rs.80 million were recovered all across the country by various state police and other law enforcement agencies in 2007.

July 6th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A man and a woman have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district for alleged involvement in a fake currency racket linked to Pakistan, police said Monday. Acting on a tip off by the Intelligence Bureau, the police raided a hideout in Tajpur village and nabbed the two Sunday night with counterfeit currency totalling over Rs.11 lakh (Rs.1.1 million).

January 21st, 2009 AGARTALA - A Tripura police official has been arrested for his alleged involvement in a fake international currency racket, officials Thursday said. 'The Tripura and Mizoram police, along with other special police wings of the northeastern states, have been probing to find out the details about the racket,' said Anish Prasad, Tripura's Dhalai district police chief.