Hamirpur Police arrested two individuals involved in a counterfeit currency racket after a shopkeeper was defrauded. The suspects, using fake Rs 200 notes to obtain genuine Rs 500 notes, were identified through CCTV footage and ITMS. Police recovered counterfeit notes and are investigating further.
Ahmedabad police have seized counterfeit Indian currency with a face value of 2.38 crore and arrested seven individuals, including a yoga teacher from Surat. The operation uncovered the use of AI and e-commerce platforms to produce and distribute the fake notes.
Police in Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh, have arrested four individuals involved in printing and circulating counterfeit currency. The suspects were apprehended with fake notes and a colour printer used in the operation.
Two men were arrested in Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka, and counterfeit currency notes with a face value of Rs 2.38 lakh were seized from them, police said.
A joint operation by Nepal and West Bengal police has led to the arrest of seven individuals and the seizure of counterfeit currency worth approximately Rs 70 crore from a flat near Kolkata.
Kanpur Police busted an IPL betting racket, arresting five individuals and seizing Rs 3.91 crore in cash and betting equipment. The accused operated through an illegal website and mobile app, using master IDs to facilitate online gambling.
The Delhi government's Drugs Control Department dismantled an illegal medicine sale operation in Shahdara, seizing a significant quantity of drugs and expired items.
A 50-year-old man was arrested in Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh, for possessing counterfeit Indian currency notes. Police recovered Rs 20,000 in fake currency and are investigating the source and any accomplices.
Officials said the six were arrested after a money changer noticed that the 500 and 1,000 Indian rupee notes presented to him for changing were fake.
A yoga teacher from Surat and six others have been arrested in Ahmedabad for circulating fake Indian currency notes (FICN). Police estimate they may have circulated Rs 10 to 12 lakh in counterfeit money.
The Department of Revenue Intelligence, DRI is tracing a major counterfeit currency racket with roots in Kerala and wings spread across Middle east and Far East.
Majid Manihar's death in Nepal has dealt a body blow to the ongoing probe into the Inter Services Intelligence-sponsored fake Indian currency racket.
Nuh Police have arrested a brother and sister for allegedly attempting to extort Rs 5 lakh from a local resident by threatening to falsely accuse him of rape.
Delhi Police busted a human trafficking and prostitution racket in central Delhi, rescuing eight women, including a minor. Two men were arrested, and efforts are underway to apprehend other suspects.
Vicky Nanjappa digs a bit deeper to unearth a few more angles in the fake currency menace creating havoc in India.
'We kept our bags packed, ready to jump into the sea. Many times, I felt it could be my last day.'
Vicky Nanjappa reveals how thieves working for Pakistan's ISI stole the template for Rs 500 and 1,000 currency notes, to improve the quality of fake currency being printed across the border.
Intelligence agencies have traced the origins of the fake currency that is being used to fund terror activities in India. IB officials have specific information that fake Indian currency is being printed in Karachi, Quetta and Lahore, under the patronage of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence.IB officials have already warned the Centre about fake currency making inroads into the Indian economy through Nepal and Bangladesh.
Pakistani intelligence is involved in marketing counterfeit currency in India and Bangladesh to patronise militant groups like Lashkar-e-Tayiba for their cross-border operations, a media report in Dhaka claimed on Saturday.
The circulation of fake currency notes is on the rise in Andhra Pradesh and what the police fear is the growing proximity between Naxals and terrorists. Vicky Nanjappa reports
Security agencies in Manipur are investigating an arms smuggling racket originating from Myanmar, with potential nationwide implications. The probe follows the arrest of a senior leader from a Valley-based Insurgent Group (VBIG).
The federal probe agency also said it seized Rs 12 crore in cash (including about Rs crore in foreign currency), gold jewellery worth Rs 6 crore, silver about 10 kg along with four vehicles following raids launched on Friday in multiple states.
The National Investigating Agency recently filed a 'confidential' report before the special NIA court in Mumbai. Toral Varia accesses the report submitted before the court which has several findings that nail Pakistan's role in the manufacture and circulation of fake currency notes in India.
The National Investigating Agency recently filed a 'confidential' report before the special NIA court in Mumbai. Toral Varia accesses the report submitted before the court which has several findings that nail Pakistan's role in the manufacture and circulation of fake currency notes in India.
Uttar Pradesh Police's Special Task Force unearths a fake embassy operating in Ghaziabad, arresting a man who claimed to be a diplomat of a non-existent country.
Investigating agencies claim that the amount of fake currency in India is a shocking Rs 170,000 crore. Reserve Bank of India officials dispute this figure and say that as on July 2008, the total currency available with the Indian public was Rs 603,000 crore and if what the IB is saying is true, then it would mean that 28 per cent of the currency in the country is fake.
Some of the money used to finance the terror attacks in Mumbai last November and the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru in December 2005 came via a fake currency racket, sources from the Intelligence Bureau and Central Bureau of Investigation have revealed.
With the introduction of polymer notes, the government aims at ending the menace of counterfeit currency in the next five years, reports Vicky Nanjappa
After detection of fake currency notes with face value of several crores in its Dumariyaganj branch, the largest public sector lender State Bank of India has put all its 1,350 branches in Uttar Pradesh on alert, asking them to be extra cautious.
Although there are various versions, it has now become clear that a major fake currency racket operates in the country and this money is being used to fund terror operations in the State.
Nepal's former crown prince Paras Shah has denied media reports linking him to a fake Indian currency racket operated by underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, terming it "false and malicious".
Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative Abdul Karim Tunda has told his interrogators that Pakistan's intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence used to run the entire supply chain of Fake Indian Currency Notes being smuggled into India.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday raided the premises of businessman Raj Kundra, the husband of actor Shilpa Shetty, and some others as part of a money laundering case linked to alleged distribution of pornographic content. Around 15 locations in Mumbai and Uttar Pradesh are being searched. The probe pertains to the role of suspects in alleged distribution of pornographic content through mobile applications and other modes.
Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said fake currency business was "not a cottage industry" and pointed out that "an organised effort in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir" was behind it.
Intelligence bureau officials warn that the next big to fund terror activities would be abductions and investigations have shown that ransom money was used in major terror operations such as the attack on the World Trade Centre and the Indian Parliament.
The instances of fake currency detection continue to occur despite a slew of measures initiated by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in recent months. According to investigating agencies, the recently recovered Rs 2 crore in fake currency in Mughalsarai, is just the tip of the iceberg.
Each time anybody smokes marijuana, he or she contributes towards funding terror organisations.
With the patronage of the ISI, Dawood Ibrahim and his aides continue to run a major fake currency racket that funds terror activities in India, says Vicky Nanjappa
'The RBI obviously gets to know when an entire series of currency notes has been faked. I fail to understand why they continue with the series despite it being faked,' former CBI director Joginder Singh tells Vicky Nanjappa.
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