Extensive searches were conducted at five locations in Bihar and one each in Jammu and Kashmir and Telangana, as part of the NIA investigations into a fake currency racket operated by accused and suspects from Nepal by using cryptocurrency.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) secured its first conviction of 2025 as the Special NIA Court, Mumbai sentenced four individuals to five years of imprisonment in a case related to the possession of Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN), according to a press release.
During the investigation, the accused told us that they target people in the Surat market and other crowded places... All three accused have been arrested under the charges of criminal conspiracy and cheating... They have come with the currency from Mumbai... Further investigation is going o
Police arrested six people in connection with a fake currency racket in the Koyya Gutta area under the Banswada Town police station limits of Telangana's Kamareddy district, officials said on Saturday.
According to the police, on September 23, Mehul Thakkar, a bullion trader, received a call from the manager of Laxmi Jewellers, who asked him about the price of over 2 kg of gold for a third party.
In Lucknow, Government Railway Police busted fake currency racket. During this, a person with fake notes worth Rs 1.97 lakh was arrested. All the notes are of Rs 500 denomination.
The Kushinagar police arrested a person after an encounter with the gang dealing in fake currency notes near Bintolia village of Sevarhi police station. Police have recovered fake currency notes with a face value of Rs 30,000.
The NIA Special Court, Bengaluru, has sentenced one accused to 6 years of simple imprisonment (SI) in a fake currency seizure case of 2018, the NIA said in a press release.
Two key accused in the 2019 Malda fake currency case have been sentenced to rigorous imprisonment (RI) by the Kolkata special court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
Accused Faijul Sk, a resident of the Gopalganj area of Malda (West Bengal), has also been fined Rs. 5,000, and failure to deposit the same will attract an additional three months of RI.
Sharing information, Sukma District Superintendent of Police Kiran Chavan said, "We received information on June 22, Saturday, about the printing of fake currency notes by Naxals. Hence, an operation was launched in the area and printers, ink, and fake notes were seized."
As per an official release, Abdul Gaffar, alias Gaffarbhai, a resident of Katihar in Bihar, had been on the run since 2019 and was nabbed on February 22, 2024, from Ahmedabad, Gujarat.