Patna: Bihar police in a significant catch have apprehended three criminals indulged in supplying counterfeit Indian currency via Nepal on Thursday, September 5. All of the arrested accused have been nabbed from Hariya, a locality adjacent to Nepal border.
Nazre Shamshad along with two other accomplices have been arrested by the Motihari police. The police team have also seized counterfeit currency with face value of around two lakhs (1.95) from the possession of the accused.
Shamshad, a resident of Bhagalpur was reported to be on the radar of the security agencies for quite some time and was apprehended eventually after the police received intel about his presence in the aforesaid locality. He is reported to be a software engineer, separate security agencies are currently interrogating Saddam who is alleged to have links in Pakistan.
According to the reports, intelligence agencies had received inputs about Shamshad’s plan to enter India around a month ago, after which the agencies had chalked out a plan to nab him from the Nepal border, though the information somehow reached Shamshad who cancelled his plan subsequently only to be caught by the police when he entered India recently.
String of arrests linked to counterfeit currency
It must be noted that this is not the only time that the security agencies/police have nabbed criminals associated with supply network of counterfeit currency from the region and earlier Motihari police have also apprehended Asif Raj from Chhauradano police station limits of East Champaran district. Asif was arrested when he was heading to Raxaul with 1.44 lakh of counterfeit currency.
मोतिहारी पुलिस ने जाली नोट कारोबारियों के विरूद्ध कार्रवाई में 01 नोट तस्कर को 01 लाख 44 हजार जाली नोट, ₹10 हजार नगद एवं 01 मोटरसाइकिल के साथ छौड़ादानों थाना से गिरफ्तार किया।
.@bihar_police#HainTaiyaarHum #BiharPolice #champaran #motihari pic.twitter.com/KvniFtoZBz— MOTIHARI POLICE (@motihari_police) August 29, 2024
In another related development, the police in March this year had also nabbed two individuals who were indulged in supplying fake Indian currency. The accused were identified as Aas Mohammad and Jay Aalam Hawari. The police team have also seized fake currency with face value of Rs 40000, all in denomination of 500 notes.
Significantly, the Bihar police in a special operation in July last year have nabbed Aslam Ansari alias Gulten in connection with supplying counterfeit currency. Wanted by the National Investigative Agency (NIA) Ansari was on the run since his release on bail in 2019.
According to the details shared by police, Ansari was well connected with handlers of Pakistan, Dubai, Thailand and Malaysia and was supplying Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICNs) from Nepal.
Notably the NIA is also investigating a case linked to FICNs from East Champaran, a bordering district of the state adjacent to the Nepal border. The agency has so far arrested and charge-sheeted 8 individuals in connection with the case registered by agency in 2015.
(click here to view/download press release of NIA)
Four accused in the case namely Afroz Ansari, Ashraful, Alomgir Sheikh, and Sunny Kumar have already been sentenced for life imprisonment by the NIA court while one of the accused identified as Raissuddin, a resident of Malda was sentenced to five years of rigorous imprisonment in August last year. Trial proceedings against the remaining three accused are ongoing.
Continuous arrests of the criminals indulged in supply of FICNs from the bordering region of Nepal indicates about a major ongoing ploy aimed possibly at harming the regional economy or helping other unlawful activities.
