Court lets off three in fake currency case in Muzaffarnagar

Three persons, who were accused of supplying fake currency notes, were acquitted of the charge by a local court here as it was found that most of the cash seized from their possession was real.

The court of Additional District Sessions Judge Mayank Chouhan yesterday acquitted Ibrahim, Shamim and Israeel.

The seized notes were sent to Kanpur branch of Reserve Bank of India which in its report has said that the currency amounting Rs 80,000 was real while the remaining notes of face value Rs 1,000 were fake.

The three had been arrested with the currency notes from Khatoli town on June 28, 1999, the prosecution said.

It was on the request of the three accused that the court directed the currency notes to be sent for examination to RBI's Kanpur branch. In their plea, they also accused the police of falsely implicating them.