Kolkata: 5 booked with FICN worth rupees 35 lakh
Acting on a tip off, police arrested five residents of Malda district- Prabhas Mondal, Pradeep Mondal, Trinath Mondal, Sanjay Mondal and Sanjay Singh- from Kolkata with the fake currency notes.
"We have arrested five residents of Baishnabnagar in West Bengal's Malda district from Posta area in Kolkata and recovered huge fake currency notes from them. We have started investigation into the matter and they are being interrogated," one senior official of STF told IBNS.
According to police sources, those FICNs were made in Bangladesh and entered India through Indo-Bangladesh border in Malda. Arrested persons brought the FICNs from Malda to Kolkata via bus and they had an aim to traffic the fake notes to other states.
The arrested will be produced to the Bankshall Court on Monday.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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