Two held with fake notes at Mumbai airport

Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of the Customs has arrested two persons at the airport for allegedly bringing fake Indian currency with face value of Rs4.5 lakh from Bangkok, AIU sources said today.

Acting on a tip-off that two persons would be coming to the city with fake notes, AIU officials intercepted Sohilsha Mehbusha Diwan and Zamir Khan Pathan, who had arrived from Bangkok by a Jet Airways flight at the international airport in Mumbai yesterday, they said.

A search led to the recovery of counterfeit Indian currency with face value of Rs4.5 lakh from the duo, the sources said, adding they were trying to find out as to whom the notes were to be delivered.

Diwan and Pathan were produced before Esplanade Metropolitan Court, which remanded them in judicial custody till September 9

"My clients are innocent and they brought the notes believing they are original," said their advocate Ravi Hirani.