Fake visa racket busted in Delhi

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.

August 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Nepali nationals caught by the Madhya Pradesh ATS in connection with fake currency racket have revealed Nepal's former prince Paras's link to India's most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim. Paras is the son of the former Nepal king Gyanendra, who has now taken refuge in Singapore.

August 13th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The anti-terrorism squad of Gujarat on Thursday claimed to have busted a fake currency racket with the arrest of a key operative on Thursday and recovered counterfeit notes with a face value of about 135,000 rupees from him. Asghar Ali was arrested on Wednesday (Aug.

August 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Police on Thursday arrested two persons allegedly involved in the printing and distribution of counterfeit notes from Jasola Village near Ashram area of the national capital. Police recovered fake Indian currency notes having a face value of 700,000 rupees from the duo.

August 4th, 2009 NAWANSHAHR - Punjab police busted a fake currency racket here and arrested four people including a resident of Nepal. Counterfeit Indian currency notes with a face value of rupees 565,000 were recovered from the men arrested in Nawanshahr city.

July 29th, 2009 CHENNAI - Tamil Nadu police have busted a racket of fake CDs with the arrest of four persons from whom it recovered pirated audio and video compact discs worth rupees 600,000 here. About 1.4 million fake CDs of Hollywood, Bollywood and Tamil movies have been seized.

July 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Police busted an international fake passport and visa racket and arrested ten people, including eight Bangladeshi nationals on Sunday. The racket was involved in providing fake documents, which would enable Bangladeshis to travel as Indian citizens to Greece and other European via Turkey.

July 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The special cell of Delhi police has arrested four people, allegedly running a racket of preparing fake foreign visas and work permits. "Three accused - Nand Kishore, Dhruv Kumar and Mohammad Hussain - were arrested from New Friends Colony area Thursday on the basis of information from intelligence agencies.

June 6th, 2009 Jalandhar, June 6 (ANI): Police claimed to have busted an international drug racket with the arrest of three persons in Ludhiana. Police recovered heroin worth 200 million rupees, a revolver, 6 live cartridges and nine lakhs of rupees from their possession.

March 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Police said they have cracked a fake currency racket with the arrest of a young woman in possession of counterfeit currency with the nominal value of Rs.18 lakh (Rs.1.8 million). A special cell in north-east Delhi arrested 24-year-old Rizwana March 14 after a probe into a specific tip off about her alleged involvement, police officials said.

March 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Police said they have cracked a fake currency racket with the arrest of a young woman in possession of counterfeit currency with the nominal value of Rs.18 lakhs (Rs.1.8 million). A special cell in north-east Delhi arrested 24-year-old Rizwana March 14 after a probe into a specific tip off abour her alleged involvement, police officials said.

February 28th, 2009 NOIDA - A prostitution racket operating here and in parts of the national capital was busted Friday with the arrest of nine call girls and seven men, police said. 'We received information that the Designer Park in Sector-62 was frequented by some pimps and call girls during evening hours.

February 13th, 2009 SILIGURI - Seven people were arrested Saturday in connection with an international antique idol smuggling racket along the India-Nepal border in Darjeeling district of West Bengal, the police said. 'We've arrested seven people after carrying out an operation.

February 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The police Sunday said they have broken up a sex racket involving trafficking of girls from Russia and many Central Asian countries in Delhi and the National Capital Region. An Uzbek woman, Intizar Imomova, who acted as the kingpin of the gang, was arrested Thursday.

January 2nd, 2009 LUCKNOW/BHOPAL - Five people have been arrested and fake currency with a face value of over Rs.100,000 seized in separate raids carried out in two towns of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, police said Saturday. Two people, including a woman, were held with counterfeit currency notes amounting to Rs.100,000 in Uttar Pradesh's Ballia district Friday night, district police chief Lalji Shukla told IANS over telephone.