Two held over fake currency racket

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 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.

September 8th, 2009 AGARTALA - Fake currency with the nominal value of Rs.500,000 was seized from a Tripura village bordering Bangladesh and two men were arrested, officials said here Tuesday. The seizure and arrests were made during searches in Sobhapur village along the India-Bangladesh border, 60 km west of Agartala, Monday night by a joint team of Assam Rifles troopers and Tripura Police.

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 14th, 2009 NAWANSHAHR - Punjab Police claimed to have busted a drug racket with the arrest of three Punjab residents and a non-resident Indian (NRI) here Friday. Police also seized 1.8 kg of heroin from their possession.

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.

June 30th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Four people were arrested with counterfeit currency notes worth nearly Rs.500,000 in Uttar Pradesh, police said Tuesday. "Acting on a tip-off, the four men were arrested late Monday evening in the Havelia Khas locality in Basti district," Additional Superintendent of Police Manoj Kumar Jha told IANS over the phone.

April 27th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Two men, hailing from Karnataka, were nabbed here Monday with counterfeit currency with the nominal value of Rs.5 lakh, police said. 'Mohammad Javed Pasha and Afzal Khan were arrested in Gomti Nagar locality by sleuths of the special task force (STF) of the Uttar Pradesh police,' Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Brij Lal told reporters.

January 9th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Six people allegedly involved in printing and circulation of fake currency notes were arrested in Uttar Pradesh, the police said Saturday. 'The six were nabbed Friday night from a hideout in Premnagar area in Bareilly (some 250 km from Lucknow),' police inspector Chandra Pal Singh told IANS on phone.

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.