FICN being smuggled through Bangla border; DRI nabs one person
By TIOL News Service
KOLKATA, SEPT 18, 2017: THE Kolkata DRI, based on intelligence, nabbed one person by the name of Md. Ziauddin, S/O Md Sirajuddin, resident of Hojai District of Assam at Nehrubali near the District Library, Nagaon last Thursday. On search of his person, 68 pieces of Fake Indian Currency Notes of Rs. 2000/-, 30 pieces of Rs.500/-, 2 pieces of Rs.100/- and 1 piece of Rs.50/- denomination notes, having a total face value of around Rs. 1,51,250/- were recovered, which he carried and kept in the right pocket of his trouser.
The officers on preliminary examination of the said currency notes observed that the currency notes are fake in as much as they did not bear the required security features. The intercepted person also confessed that these notes are counterfeit. Md. Ziauddin, the person from whose possession the FICN were recovered has been arrested and remanded to judicial custody.
Preliminary investigation suggests that the FICN is being smuggled into India from Bangladesh through the porous Indo- Bangladesh border through Dhubri district of Assam. Prior to this seizure, earlier on, in April 2017,DRI officers has effected a seizure of 41 numbers of FICN of Rs. 2000 denomination, with a cumulative face value of Rs 82000, from Guwahati in the North East.
Further investigations are on in the said case.
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