Fake currency racket busted by BSF

SILCHAR (Assam): The BSF has busted a big fake currency racket by seizing counterfeits with the face value of Rs two lakh and arresting the prime accused from a village along the Indo-Bangla border in Assam's Karimganj district.
    
One Aftab Uddin (42), one of the prime accused in the fake currency racket, was arrested during the raid at Basantpur last night, BSF sources said.
    
The intelligence wing of BSF has been on a trail of the racked for last one month and such a large quantity of fake notes was recovered for the first time in the North East.
    
The arrested man revealed that a fake currency network had been active in Hailakandi, Silchar, and Karimganj areas of South Assam for the last four years.
    
He was later handed over to the Assam police.
    
The racket is spread over other areas of Assam, Mizoram and Manipur besides having links with neighbouring Myanmar and Bangladesh.