Four individuals were arrested in Surat, with counterfeit Indian currency notes valued at Rs 2.57 crore. The four suspects were caught at a check post in Saroli on Saturday evening while carrying three bags.
The Saroli police said that three of them are from the neighbouring Maharashtra district of Ahilyanagar, which was once known as Ahmednagar.
A senior officer said, “They hid FICN of Rs 500 denomination in 43 bundles, each having 1000 pieces. The first and last notes of these bundles were genuine in order to fool people. In 21 bundles, they had 1,000 pieces of FICN of Rs 200 denomination placed in a similar manner. They planned to dupe unsuspecting persons with these notes at banks, markets etc.”
Sections 318 (2) (cheating), 61 (criminal conspiracy), and 62 (punishment for attempting to commit serious crimes) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita have been applied to charge the four.
“The fake notes did not have serial numbers and had ‘Bharatiya Bachchon ka Khata’ printed in its place. The four accused have been identified as Dattatrey Rokade, Rahul Vishwakarma and Rahul Kale, hailing from Ahmednagar (Ahilyanagar) and Gulshan Gugale, a resident of Surat,” the official added.
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