One person was apprehended on December 4 in the Ngur area of Mizoram's Champhai district for carrying illegal Indian currency notes worth Rs 1.24 crore, officials said on Saturday.
The Special Task Force (STF) of Assam police recovered and seized fake Indian currency notes (FICN) worth Rs 4.59 lakh and apprehended a person in the Sonapur area in the Kamrup (Metro) district.
The Mumbai Zonal Office of the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on Thursday recovered foreign currencies equivalent to Rs 4.6 crore, along with Rs 4 lakh in Indian currency, during a search operation across five locations in Mumbai.
In a series of operations, Assam Rifles recovered marijuana and Indian currency with a total worth of Rs 95.44 lacs in Champhai, Mizoram in two separate operations and apprehended two individuals on Thursday.
In yet another success in its drive against trans-border crimes and narcotics trafficking, troops under the Border Security Force (BSF) Guwahati Frontier foiled a smuggling bid and seized fake Indian currency notes (FICN), narcotics and rescued large number of cattle heads meant for smugglin
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered a case against three accused including then two Superintendents and one Inspector of Customs posted at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport(RGIA), Hyderabad on allegations of conspiracy and corruption.
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."
The Indian currency Rupee was the least volatile major currencies among its emerging market peers and a few advanced economies in the just-concluded financial year 2023-24, according to the Monthly Economic Review report of the Department of Economic Affairs under the Ministry of Finance.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) charge-sheeted three more accused persons in connection with the seizure of fake Indian currency notes from Guwahati in 2019.
On the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday, acting upon specific intelligence regarding the presence of a huge quantity of narcotics items (Yaba tablets) in a car parked inside the house of one Idrish Mia from Sobhapur village in Tripura's Sepahijala, the BSF conducted a special joint op