New Delhi, Dec 8 (Agency) Two persons were arrested for their alleged involvement in an international syndicate of circulation of fake Indian currency notes (FICNs) in India from across the border. The amount of Rs 1,97,500 recovered from them, Delhi Police said on Thursday. The fake Indian currencies were being routed to India through the Indo-Bangladesh border, said Police. The accused, identified as Mabia Khatoon (35) and Munish Ahmed (54), have already supplied FICNs amounting to more than Rs 40 lakh in Delhi during the last two Years, Police added. Both were arrested on a specific information on Wednesday morning from Anand Vihar Railway Station in Delhi when Khatoon had allegedly handed over a packet of FICNs to her associate Ahmed, said Police. A case under relevant sections has been registered at PS Special Cell in this regard.
The recovered FICNs are of such a fine quality that it is difficult to distinguish them from the original one with a naked eye. The Police said ??Mabia Khatoon disclosed that she had allegedly procured recovered consignment of FICNs from a person at Malda in West Bengal and come to Delhi to deliver the same to Munish Ahmed. ??During interrogation, Ahmed disclosed that he has been supplying FICNs in Delhi/NCR and Uttar Pradesh since last five years. He has been found involved in four criminal cases in past and three of these cases are about supplying of fake currency notes, said Police.