Kasargod: Counterfeit Currency Worth Ten Lac Rupees Recovered
Daijiworld Media Network – Kasargod (SP)
Kasargod, Sep 20: Police confiscated counterfeit currency notes worth ten lac rupees being transported in a car for being distributed to various centres spread over Kasargod and Kannur districts.
They also nabbed three persons, in an operation conducted at Taliparamba in Kannur district on Monday September 19. The Ford Ikon car used for the purpose has been seized. The accused had hidden the currency notes inside their inner garments, the policemen said.
The arrested persons have been identified as Kamal Ummer alias Kamal Haji (42), a resident of Akkarakunnummal in Hosadurga Kadappura, Pilattara P P Pradeepan (43) from Kannur, and M P Ashish (35), a resident of Kannur Chovvavalayavul. Nine packets of currency notes with a face value of Rs 1000 each were recovered from them. The notes are in 8AC, 4BC, and 4BV series.
It is gathered that Kamal Haji and Ashish were working in the Gurf region till recently. The accused wanted to convert the currency notes into smaller denomination notes by exchanging them with fish market and vegetable market vendors. The policemen claim to have information that this gang had given such notes to petrol bunks and realtors in the past. It is said that Kamal Haji is the kingpin of the gang.
The arrested accused told the police that they had paid genuine currency notes to those who supplied these counterfeit notes to them, and that they could get fake currency notes much in excess of what they had paid for them. Even though the currency notes in the possession of the accused look like genuine ones, they have some inherent deficiencies in the spot of Gandhiji’s picture etc, which can be detected only after detailed verification. The arrested men informed the policemen that they had already circulated lacs of such notes.
The police team which conducted its operation secretly was led by Kannur additional superintendent of police, Rahul R Nair. Taliparamba circle inspector, K E Premchandran, sub-inspector, Abdul Rahim, and others were in this team. Although the team raided the residence of Kamal Haji, they did not find anything there. Pradeep owns a big hotel in Chervathur in the district, and he used his hotel to circulate fake notes, the policemen said. The policemen said that the case would be handed over National Investigation Agency for further probe, as circulation of fake notes is an anti-national act.