Cops have found a link between these arrests and the ones made by Karanj police a month back where FICN of Rs1.63 lakh was seized.
Officials of the special operation group (SOG) arrested three persons on Monday for possessing fake Indian currency notes (FICN) of Rs2 lakh. Cops have found a link between these arrests and the ones made by Karanj police a month back where FICN of Rs1.63 lakh was seized.
Based on a tip off, SOG inspector SM Chaudhary and his team kept a watch near Vasna AMTS. On February 6, they arrested three men in possession of 48 fake notes of Rs1,000 denomination. The arrested have been identified as Noor Islam Sheikh, 20, Riyazuddin Sheikh, 21, and Babar Sheikh, 19, all residents of Mahajan Tola village in Malda district of West Bengal.
The three youths told police that they had reached Ahmedabad on February 4 on Howrah Express with fake notes of Rs2 lakh. While in city, they had rented a house in Ambikanagar near Thaltej Gam. Cops searched this house and found 150 fake notes of Rs1,000 denomination. The accused had used two Rs1,000 notes for purchases earlier.
Police officials said that these people used the fake notes in crowded areas like Lal Darwaza and Bhadra where vendors did not have time to verify if the notes were fake or genuine. The three youths confessed to having got the notes from Sentu alias Mithun Sheikh in West Bengal. For every fake Rs1000 note that they managed to circulate in the market, they got Rs100 as commission.
At a press conference on Tuesday, DCP-SOG CF Baranda said that they had found Sheikh's election card from the fraudsters and are in the process of verifying its genuineness. Talking about the modus operandi, he said, "There is a fresh turn in this case. Earlier, the fraudsters would put up at a hotel. This time, they rented a house instead. We might send a team to WB for further investigation."
In the earlier case, Karanj police had arrested two people who had come to the city from Jharkhand. Fake notes of denomination totaling Rs1.63 lakh were recovered from them. Cops believe that Akhtar, who was the kingpin in that case, and Sheikh might be procuring the notes from the same place i.e. West Bengal as the series on 15 notes is the same in both the cases. They are also not ruling out the possibility of these two names being of the same person.
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