New Delhi, The Delhi Police has arrested 4 males in reference to a racket concerned within the circulation of counterfeit foreign money and seized such notes with a face worth of greater than ₹17 lakh, a senior official mentioned on Tuesday.
4 held for circulating pretend foreign money notes: Delhi Police
The accused have been recognized as Vikash Bharadwaj , a resident of Delhi, Satyam Singh , Sachin and Anurag Sharma , all residents of Uttar Pradesh, officers mentioned.
On November 13, info was obtained {that a} member of a gang concerned within the circulation of counterfeit Indian foreign money would come to a bus stand close to the SDM workplace important highway in Naya Bans village and hand over a considerable amount of such notes to an confederate, Deputy Commissioner of Police Nidhin Valsan mentioned.
Police apprehended Bharadwaj together with a bag that contained 399 pretend notes of ₹500 denomination. Subsequently, Singh and Sachin have been additionally nabbed. Faux Indian Foreign money Notes with a face worth of ₹20,000 have been seized on their situations, the DCP mentioned.
Police additionally raided Khoda Colony in Ghaziabad and arrested Sharma from there. Faux foreign money notes with a face worth of ₹2.4 lakh, together with different gadgets, have been seized from his rented room, Valsan mentioned.
Bharadwaj, the primary provider of the notes, was already concerned in an FICN case in Lucknow. He was additionally convicted in an attempt-to-murder case on the Shahabad Dairy right here. Singh and Sachin used to produce the pretend notes, whereas Sharma used to print these at his rented lodging, police mentioned.
A complete of 919 FICNs of ₹500 denomination, together with 621 A4-size sheets of FICNs , a laptop computer, a color printer, two laminators, a paper-cutting machine, 9 bundles of A4-size papers and different gadgets utilized in printing FICNs have been seized, they added.