Navi Mumbai: Fake currency notes with face value of Rs 50 lakh seized; two men from Gujarat held

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Police have arrested two persons in Maharashtra's Navi Mumbai and seized from them fake currency notes with the face value of nearly Rs 50 lakh, an official told news agency PTI on Friday.

The accused, who hail from Bhuj in Kutch district of neighbouring Gujarat, were arrested on Thursday night based on a tip-off, and the police also recovered cash worth more than Rs 1 lakh from them, he said.

"After being alerted, a team from the Kharghar police station in Navi Mumbai nabbed the duo. During their frisking, a total of 9,981 fake currency notes of Rs 500 denomination with 'Children Bank of India' written on them and without any serial number were seized from them," the official told PTI.

The seized notes looked exactly like the genuine ones. The accused had planned to circulate these notes of Rs 49,90,500 face value in the market, the police official told PTI.

Cash worth Rs 1,09,500 was also recovered from the duo identified as Usman Dushap Saha (40) and Abdul Hasan Turk (41), he added.

Police said that the accused have been booked under various Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections, including 420 (cheating), 489 (B) (using as genuine, forged or counterfeit currency-notes or bank-notes) and 34 (common intention).

In another incident, an offence has been registered against a man for allegedly cheating a deceased police official of Rs 12 lakh in Maharashtra's Thane district, police told PTI on Friday.

Based on a complaint lodged by a senior inspector's widower, a case under sections 420 (cheating) and 406 (criminal breach of trust) of the Indian Penal Code has been registered against Manohar Deshmukh, a resident of Murbad, an official told PTI.

Senior inspector Usha Suradkar, who succumbed to cancer last year, had bought an agricultural land from Deshmukh in 2016 for Rs 4.5 lakh and had lent him Rs 7.5 lakh for his daughter's wedding, he said.

The alleged accused, however, did not give Suradkar possession of the land and also failed to return the money she lent him, the official told PTI, adding that the accused allegedly took Rs 12 lakh in all from the policewoman between March 2016 and January 2023.

No arrest has been made in this connection and a probe has been initiated, he said.

(With inputs from PTI)