Fake note supplier with ISI links held

The police in East Champaran district of north Bihar, on Saturday , arrested Farmullah Ansari, a Nepal-based alleged supplier of fake Indian currency notes (FICN) and drugs smuggler, who is believed to have close ties with Pakistan’s ISI.

Confirming this, East Champaran SP Jitendra Rana, said Farmalluh , who carried a reward of ₹50,000 on his head and was on the ‘most wanted’ list of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), was nabbed from Islampur in Raxaul town of East Champaran, following a tip-off.

A police team led by Raxaul deputy superintendent of police, Rakesh Kumar, when he had entered Indian territory to meet a contact..

A resident of Hariharpur village in Bara district of Nepal, Farmullah was a close aide of his co-villager, Md Abi Ansari, who was arrested in the first week of May. He had revealed the names of many of his contacts in Indian districts bordering Nepal, who were involved in his racket.

Abi, 35, was arrested from Sikta police station area of West Champaran, following intelligence inputs. Official sources said he also carried a reward of ₹50,000 on his head.

According to the police, the anti-terrorist squad (ATS) of the Uttar Pradesh police, the Bihar police and central intelligence agencies were interrogating Farmullah, as was the case with Abi, earlier.

Farmullah name came up when the UP ATS interrogated Abi in connection with the recovery near Raxaul, of FICN worth ₹25 lakh. The fake money was being moved through a courier when the police swooped down on it. During interrogation, Farmullah admitted to being involved in the fake currency racket for the last five years, along with Abi and others, handling heavy consignments coming from Dubai and Pakistan.