The Special Task Force (STF) of West Bengal on Monday arrested two persons and recovered a huge amount of Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) amounting to Rs 10 lakh.
Officials of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) on Sunday intercepted a passenger at Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi and seized foreign currency notes valued at Rs 64 lakh from his possession, officials said.
Aam Aadmi Party MLA Mohinder Goyal on Wednesday arrived at the Delhi Assembly with bundles of currency notes, claiming that he had deliberately received a bribe in a bid to expose an ongoing 'recruitment scam' at the government-run Babasaheb Ambedkar Hospital.
"The accused works as a painter and a total of 300 fake currency notes in the denomination of Rs 200 were received from him, officials with Mumbai's Malvani police station said while speaking to ANI.
Kolkata Police apprehended a man accused of circulating counterfeit currency in the market, and seized fake currency worth Rs 1.5 lakh, under the Topsia Police Station area.
In a strong dissent to the Supreme Court's decision on demonetisation, Shiv Sena in its mouthpiece 'Saamana' on Wednesday said that calling the government decision "valid" means to "support the economic massacre of the country".
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the Supreme Court's judgement upholding the 2016 decision of the Central government to demonetise the currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 denominations came.
Responding to the judgment by a Constitution bench of the Supreme Court on Monday, upholding the Centre's decision in 2016 to demonetise high-value currency notes of denominations of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 through a 4:1 majority verdict, Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera said it would be wrong