Man held with ₹3L in fake currency
NEWDELHI: A 45-year-old man was arrested by Delhi police’s special cell for allegedly smuggling fake currency with a face value of ₹3 lakh. Police said the notes with a face value of ₹2,000 each were smuggled into India through the porous Indo-bangladesh border of Malda, West Bengal.
“We arrested one Narender Singh near Red Fort Metro station on January 12 after receiving a tip-off that a key member of the fake note syndicate would come there to deliver a consignment. We seized 150 notes of ₹2,000 face value kept in a bag,” said PK Kushwah, DCP (Special Cell).
All the seized fake notes are of fine quality and it is very difficult to distinguish fake notes from the real ones, Kushwah added.
During interrogation, it came to light that Singh had been smuggling notes and has past cases against him. He further told the police that after a brief lull in the first few months post-demoneti- sation, the supply of fake notes has picked up since the second half of 2017.
“Singh disclosed that he is supplying fake currency for past three to four years. In 2016, he was arrested by the Rajasthan police with fake currency notes of ₹1,000 denomination. Due to demonetisation, he was not getting the duplicate notes of the new currency in the first half of 2017. However in the second half, he again started the business as the supply started to come from Farraka in West Bengal,” said Kushwah.
Singh is a resident of Imlota village in Haryana’s Charkhi Dadri district.