Two held in Uttar Pradesh with fake notes

LUCKNOW - Two men, who worked for a Bangladesh-based racket and manufactured and supplied counterfeit Indian currency notes, have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor city, police said Saturday.

Mohd. Nurul Islam, 33, and Shamiul, 24, both natives of West Bengal, were nabbed from Keeratpur town Friday evening and fake Indian currency notes of face value of around Rs.60,000 seized from them.

“Preliminary investigations indicate the two worked for a Bangladesh-based racket and were primarily assigned with the task of circulating fake notes in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh,” police inspector Shoaib Khan told reporters in Bijnor, some 300 km from Lucknow.

“The two have been in the illegal trade for the last four years,” he added.

According to police, the consignment of the illegal currency notes was handed over to the two men by their gang members in Delhi.