Five arrested with fake currency notes worth Rs 12 lakh in West Bengal
Malda (West Bengal): Sleuths of West Bengal Police on Sunday nabbed five people, including a woman, in West Bengal ’s Malda District, and seized fake currency notes worth
Rs 12 lakh from their possession. Malda Superintendent of Police, Bhuvan Chandra
Mondal, said that they had received intelligence information about a bulk amount
of fake currency noted being smuggled into India from Bangladesh . The policemen
then reached the proposed spot as decoy customers and arrested the culprits. “A
police team disguised as buyers went to the spot. They charged Rs. 32,000 for
every (bundle of) Rs. 100,000 of fake currency notes. Five people including a
woman have been arrested with the fake notes amounting to Rs. 12 lakh. The notes
are of Rs. 500 denomination,” Mondal said. Mondal also said that they are investigating
the source of the currency, and who else are involved in the racket of counterfeit
currency notes.
