Friday, August 28, 2009

add add * Prime accused, SPO arrested in fake currency racket

Jammu, Aug 27 (PTI) The prime accused in a fake currency racket was arrested along with a special police officer (SPO) during a raid in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.

Acting on the disclosures made by arrested Territorial Army (TA) jawans-- Mohammad Inayat Hussain and Mohammad Aslam, who were found to be in possession of fake currency with a face value of Rs 1.70 lakh-- police conducted raids in the district yesterday.

They nabbed SPO Ziauddin and prime accused Nizamuddin and recovered counterfeit notes with a face value of Rs 17,000 from them.

According to the police, fake currency with a face value of Rs 5 lakh was sent by top Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) commander Abu Atif from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) to Poonch through a militant courier and guide Bashir Ahmed on the intervening night of August 11-12, they said.

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