Rs 19.8 lakh seized in fake currency

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) arrested three persons this week for attempting to circulate fake Indian currency valued at Rs 19.8 lakh, according to Indian Express.u00a0

As reported in Indian Express, according to a senior DRI official, two persons named Khaleel Chalkara and Mohammed Shabbir were intercepted from Lokmanya Tilak Terminus railway station after the agency found fake Indian notes of Rs 500 denomination stocked in the sidewalls of a carton that they were carrying.

The duo told the interrogators that they had picked the currency from Kathmandu and travelled to Lokmanya Tilak Terminus via Bangladesh and then went to Gorakhpur before they took a train for Mumbai.

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