Fake currency racket busted, 2 arrested

Kolkata: Kolkata police's Special Task Force (STF) has arrested two persons for their alleged involvement in smuggling fake currency.

Police have seized fake currency notes worth nearly Rs 4 lakh from their possession. It was learnt that the accused were trying to smuggle the fake currency notes to Bihar.

They brought the fake notes from Malda. According to police, the accused came to the city to hand over the fake notes to a person from Bihar.

Police came to know that the accused would assemble near Strand Road on Monday evening.

Police men in plain clothes were on the streets to nab the culprits. When the duo reached the area, they were caught red-handed.

Police are interrogating to know the names of other accused involved in the racket.

Both of them are the residents of Malda. Police are also investigating if the accused are part of any international smuggling racket.

The investigators are not ruling out the existence of an international racket behind this. They are trying to ascertain the route through which the fake currencies would have been smuggled

out of the state.

On June 26, the city police arrested a person from Chandni Chawk area and seized fake currency notes worth nearly Rs 5 lakh. Police are investigating if there is any connection between the two incidents.