Fake currency racket busted, four held in Ambernath

AMBERNATH: Police arrested four people for allegedly printing fake Rs100 notes at Ambernath on Wednesday.

The arrested accused – Anand Rangappa Pujari,19, Venkat Tipanna Bokal,30, and Hanumant Sidhappa Mhetre,32, and Raju Tevar,32 — are all Ambernath residents and the case against them was registered on Wednesday.

Tevar, who is allegedly the brains behind the fake currency racket, has cheating, forgery and cyber crime cases against him in a Delhi police station.

On Tuesday, Pujari tried to buy a bottle of an aerated drink at a grocery shop in Kahoj village using a fake Rs100 note but the shopkeeper noticed that it was a fake and suggested Pujari to not use it, said the police. “Later, the shopkeeper saw Pujari trying to exchange a fake Rs100 note at another shop. He soon alerted others and called the cops,” said police inspector B Wagh from Ambernath police station.

After Pujari was arrested and police questioned him, he disclosed his colleagues’ names who were involved in this racket with him from the past couple of months. “We laid a plan and caught the other three. We have produced them in court and they were remanded in police custody. We are interrogating them to know if they have any links in other states too,” added Wagh.

The police found a printer, colour, papers, cutter and other necessary materials to make

“We found that Tevar lured the three others into committing this crime by promising extra income. The gang has cheated many in and around Thane ” MUMBAI: The Bombay high court has asked the Centre to clarify as to why a Pakistani couple has not been deported after their visa expired, despite the HC and the Supreme Court ordering deporta tion. Instead of deporting the cou ple, the central government is considering their plea to regular ise their stay in India after their visa expired on November 18 2016.

The division bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Anuja Prabhudessai was irked to note that the Centre took this step despite the HC ordering that Syed Waseem Ur-rehman and his wife Sayeda had no right to continue residing in India after their visa expired and the decision being upheld by the SC. The court has asked the secretary of Ministry of Home Affairs to file an affidavit clarifying their stand in the case

The couple had approached the HC in November 2016 through advocate Vinod Sangvikar seek ing extension of visa on the grounds that their application seeking Indian citizenship was pending. The bench rejected the petition saying that being Paki stani nationals, the couple had no right to get visa extension in India and there is no law that permits them to overstay because their citizenship applications were pending. A day before the visa of the couple, who have been living in India since 2009, expired, they had filed a plea with Union home minister seeking extension.

The court has now posted the petition for further hearing on March 27 and the couple has been