4 arrested for spreading fake currency notes: Delhi Police | Latest Delhi News

New Delhi Delhi Police has arrested four men in connection with the fake currency racket and seized such notes with a face value of over ₹17 lakh, a senior official said on Tuesday.

The accused have been identified as Vikash Bharadwaj, a resident of Delhi, Satyam Singh, Sachin and Anurag Sharma, all residents of Uttar Pradesh, officials said.

On November 13, information was received that a member of a gang involved in the circulation of fake Indian currency would approach a bus stop near the main road of the SDM office in Naya Bans village and hand over a large amount of such notes to an associate, said Deputy Commissioner of Police Nidhin Valsan.

The police detained Bharadwaj along with a bag containing 399 fake currency notes ₹500 denomination. Then Singh and Sachin were also caught. Fake Indian banknotes with face value ₹According to the DCP, 20,000 people have been arrested in their case.

The police also raided Khoda Colony in Ghaziabad and arrested Sharma from there. Counterfeit banknotes with a denomination of approx ₹Valsan said Rs 2.4 lakh along with other items were confiscated from his rented room.

Bharadwaj, a major supplier of currency notes, was already involved in the FICN case in Lucknow. He was also convicted in an attempt to murder case in Shahabad dairy. Police alleged that Singh and Sachin supplied fake currency notes and Sharma printed them at a rented apartment.

A total of 919 FICN z ₹500 denomination, 621 sheets of A4 format FICN, a laptop, a color printer, two laminators, a paper cutting machine, nine packs of A4 format paper and other items used for printing FICN were seized, they added.

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