MP Police: Indore: इंदौर में नकली नोटों का जखीरा ज़ब्त, क्या इंस्पेक्टर जयंत राठौर को मिलेगी शाबासी?

INDORE: Police busted a fake currency racket and arrested a man with fake currency notes worth about Rs 1 lakh of different denominations. The accused has confessed that he along with an accomplice has already used Rs 2.5 lakh in the market.

According to the police the accused has confessed to having brought the fake currency note from Maharashtra.

Superintendent of Police (West) D Sreenivasa Verma said that the Crime branch DSP Jitendra Singh received information that a few people were selling fake currencies in exchange of lesser amount. Following the information he directed inspector Jayant Rathore and sub-inspector Manishrajsingh Bhadauria to investigate the case.

The investigating team found that one Naresh Pawar, who was earlier arrested for the same crime, was active again along with one of his friend named Bunti. The team contacted the duo posing as customers. The accused asked for Rs 40,000 in original currency in exchange for fake currency notes worth Rs 1 lakh. The crime branch team accepted the offer. Initially, the accused made the crime branch team to go from one place to another. At last they called the team at LIG crossing, where the team arrested the Bunti with a bag containing the fake currency. Naresh Kumar, however, managed to escape. The crime branch also recovered fake currency notes of Rs 1,000 and Rs 100 denominations from the residence of the accused in Nehru Nagar. Bunti has also been arrested earlier under Arms Act.