New Delhi, Apr 07: A Special Court of the National Investigation Agency has convicted two fake currency racketeers and sentenced them to 4 years in prison.
The convicted duo are Shiv Bhajan Gupta and Kuldeep Gupta.
New Delhi, Jan 05: The National Investigation Agency has filed a supplementary chargesheet in connection with a fake currency case.
The case pertains to seizure of fake currency worth Rs 82,000 from the house of accused Jasim alias Wasim. Investigations have revealed that the accused persons had conspired to circulate fake currency in different parts of the country.
Two persons have been arrested from the Delhi railway station in connection with a fake currency case. The police found that these two persons were carrying with them fake currency worth Rs 20 lakh.
Both the accused persons have been taken into police custody as the police are trying to gather more information regarding the origin of these notes.
The National Investigating Agency has filed a chargesheet in the fake currency case involving a lynchpin of the Dawood Ibrahim syndicate. In the chargesheet the NIA names Ekramul Ansari as the prime accused who had attempted to smuggle in fake currency notes worth Rs 49 lakh from Dubai to India.
The NIA states that Ansari had brought into India fake currency worth Rs 49 lakh from Dubai and had planned on circulating it. All the notes that were found were of the Rs 1000 denomination and on verification at Nashik it was found to be fake.
Vicky Nanjappa 