Fake Currency Seizure Case | Lucknow NIA Court Sentences 2 Accused To 5-Year Jail Term
11 months ago

Fake Currency Seizure Case | Lucknow NIA Court Sentences 2 Accused To 5-Year Jail Term

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A special National Investigation Agency Court in Lucknow has convicted and sentenced two men to a 5-year jail term in connection with the 2019 Lucknow fake currency case. As per NIA's case against the accused, the focal point of the case pertains to the discovery and confiscation of counterfeit currency by ATS UP on November 25, 2019. After a thorough probe, the NIA pressed charges against five individuals wherein it alleged that they all had collaborated to engage in the illicit activities of smuggling, acquiring, and possessing high-quality counterfeit currency. NIA's probe revealed that accused Aminul was the main conspirator and he would bring consignments of Fake Currency from Malda, while Phulchand and his aides would receive these consignments in UP.

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Telangana Police busts fake currency racket in Kamareddy, arrests six accused
1 week, 2 days ago

Telangana Police busts fake currency racket in Kamareddy, arrests six accused

India TV News  

In a major success, Telangana Police busted a fake currency racket and arrested six people in connection with the case in the Koyya Gutta area under the Banswada Town police station limits of the Kamareddy district, officials said on Saturday. According to the police, the arrested accused have been identified as Kadapatri Rajagopal Rao, Hussain Peera, Kolavar Kiran Kumar, Kesrole …

NIA Mumbai Court convicts and sentences three Bangladeshi nationals
1 week, 6 days ago

NIA Mumbai Court convicts and sentences three Bangladeshi nationals

The Hindu  

The National Investigation Agency Special Court, Mumbai, has sentenced five years of imprisonment to three Bangladeshi nationals for illegal infiltration into India and possession of fake documents, said NIA officials on Wednesday in a press statement. Mohammed Habibur Rehman Habib alias Raj Jesub Mandal, Hannan Anwar Hussain Khan alias Hannan Baburali Gazi, and Mohammed Azarali Subhanallah alias Raja Jesub Mandal …

U.P.: NIA court awards 10-year RI to fake note case accused
1 month, 1 week ago

U.P.: NIA court awards 10-year RI to fake note case accused

Hindustan Times  

The Lucknow-based special court of the National Investigation Agency on Thursday sentenced 10 years of rigorous imprisonment to a key accused in a Fake Indian Currency Note case, confirmed NIA officials. In a press note, a senior NIA official said the court has convicted a Sitapur resident Babloo and pronounced three 10-year RI sentences each under u/s 489B, 120B of …

PNB fraud case: Fugitive Nirav Modi's assets worth ₹29.75 crore attached by ED
3 months, 1 week ago

PNB fraud case: Fugitive Nirav Modi's assets worth ₹29.75 crore attached by ED

Hindustan Times  

The Enforcement Directorate has provisionally attached assets worth ₹29.75 crore belonging to fugitive businessman Nirav Modi, as part of its ongoing investigation into the ₹6,498 crore Punjab National Bank fraud case, officials said on Wednesday. Nirav Modi, the mastermind behind the PNB scam, has been fighting extradition from the UK, where authorities arrested him in 2019. The scam, uncovered in …

Haryana: Six held with ₹13.66 lakh in fake currency notes
4 months, 1 week ago

Haryana: Six held with ₹13.66 lakh in fake currency notes

Hindustan Times  

Six members of a gang involved in printing and circulating fake currency notes were arrested after raids at Yamunanagar and Panchkula districts, said CIA-1 unit of the Yamunanagar police on Saturday. The police seized fake currency notes worth ₹13.66 lakh, a printer, a laptop and plain papers during the raids. An amount of ₹91,200 in fake currency notes was recovered …

Tracking The Money Trail, Fake IDs & Details, Spending Patterns of The Bengaluru Blast Accused
8 months, 1 week ago

Tracking The Money Trail, Fake IDs & Details, Spending Patterns of The Bengaluru Blast Accused

News 18  

The National Investigation Agency arrested the two accused in the Bengaluru cafe blast case — Mussavir Hussain Shazib and Abdul Matheen Taaha — from West Bengal on Friday. But after Shazib’s cap was found at a Bengaluru mosque, investigators scanned its details, located the seller in Chennai, and examined the CCTV footage to zero in on the duo. “In this …

Cheats Arrested With Rs 27 cr. Worth Demonetised Turkish Currency
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Cheats Arrested With Rs 27 cr. Worth Demonetised Turkish Currency

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: In a joint operation, sleuths of SOT, LB Nagar Zone, and LB Nagar police on Thursday arrested members of an interstate cheating gang in Chintalkunta and seized demonetised Turkish currency of 10 lakh liras, valued at Rs 27 crore in Indian currency. The accused were trying to sell the demonetised Turkey currency at lower than international rates, police said. …

Fake Currency: Two Men Convicted, Handed 5-year Jail Term in 2019 Case by NIA Special Court in Lucknow
11 months ago

Fake Currency: Two Men Convicted, Handed 5-year Jail Term in 2019 Case by NIA Special Court in Lucknow

News 18  

A special court of the National Investigation Agency on Thursday convicted and handed jail terms to two men in the 2019 Lucknow fake currency case. In January 2020, a juvenile was also convicted and sentenced in the case to two years, one month and 10 days’ imprisonment. Now, Lakhimpur Kheri resident Phulchand and Aminul Islam from West Bengal’s Malda have …

Attari border drug haul case: NIA arrests key absconding accused while trying to flee Dubai
1 year ago

Attari border drug haul case: NIA arrests key absconding accused while trying to flee Dubai

India TV News  

Attari border drug haul case: The National Investigation Agency on Saturday said that a key absconding accused has been arrested in connection with the Attari border heroin seizure case involving the smuggling of over 102 kgs of narcotics from Afghanistan via the India-Pak border in April 2022. His role in the conspiracy relating to the international drug nexus came to …

Probe agency NIA raids multiple locations in 4 states, busts fake currency racket
1 year ago

Probe agency NIA raids multiple locations in 4 states, busts fake currency racket

India Today  

The National Investigation Agency conducted raids on Saturday across four states, uncovering a network involved in the production and circulation of Fake Indian Currency Notes. The raids targeted individuals suspected of being part of a larger conspiracy to traffic fake currency notes across borders and promote its circulation in various states of India. The suspects included Rahul Tanaji Patil in …

3 get four-five years of rigorous imprisonment in fake currency racket case
1 year, 1 month ago

3 get four-five years of rigorous imprisonment in fake currency racket case

Hindustan Times  

A National Investigation Agency court on Tuesday sentenced three men to four to five years of rigorous imprisonment for supplying high quality Fake Indian Currency Notes smuggled from Bangladesh. unit in December 2019, following the recovery of fake currency notes with a total face value of ₹ 2,49,500, from the possession of Murad Alam in Ghaziabad. unit in December 2019, …

Rajasthan: Fake currency notes worth Rs 1.97 crore seized in Jodhpur ahead of Assembly polls
1 year, 1 month ago

Rajasthan: Fake currency notes worth Rs 1.97 crore seized in Jodhpur ahead of Assembly polls

India TV News  

Rajasthan: Fake currency worth Rs 1.97 crore has been seized from poll-bound Rajasthan. The cops first took action assuming that the money was real but later realised they were fake as currency notes had similar serial numbers. A team comprising of ACP and 10 police officers has been formed to find out the sources of the fake currency notes and …

Gang pays ₹25,000 for fake currency with face value of ₹1 lakh, caught by Bengaluru police
1 year, 4 months ago

Gang pays ₹25,000 for fake currency with face value of ₹1 lakh, caught by Bengaluru police

The Hindu  

Cottonpet police busted an inter-State fake currency racket and arrested three persons red-handed with 1,307 fake currency notes of ₹500 denomination adding up to ₹6.5 lakh. They were caught red-handed with the notes near the skywalk at city railway station on July 28 by a police team led by Balaraj G. Investigations revealed that Saravanan used to source the fake …

NIA attaches two properties of ‘notorious’ drug trafficker
1 year, 5 months ago

NIA attaches two properties of ‘notorious’ drug trafficker

The Hindu  

The National Investigation Agency has attached two properties of a notorious drug trafficker in connection with the seizure of about 103 kg of heroin smuggled from Afghanistan via the Attari border in Punjab’s Amritsar last year. The accused has been identified as Razi Haider Zaidi, whose residential plot measuring 121.35 sq metres in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, and a residential two-storey …

NIA attaches properties of man who smuggled drugs via Attari border
1 year, 5 months ago

NIA attaches properties of man who smuggled drugs via Attari border

Hindustan Times  

The National Investigation Agency has attached two properties of a notorious heroin smuggler in Delhi and Muzzafarnagar in connection with a probe related to smuggling of Afghan heroin via Attari border in Amritsar. NIA investigations revealed that the accused Razi Haider Zaidi was the receiver of this consignment of licorice roots in which heroin was concealed,” the agency said. The …

Fake Currency Raids by NIA in Mumbai Linked to D Company; Several Incriminating Materials Found
1 year, 7 months ago

Fake Currency Raids by NIA in Mumbai Linked to D Company; Several Incriminating Materials Found

News 18  

The National Investigation Agency has recovered several incriminating materials during searches at half a dozen locations in Mumbai in the 2021 Naupada case relating to seizure of high quality fake Indian currency notes. This is strong corroboration of NIA’s earlier investigational findings establishing a direct connection with the D Company in the fake currency racket. Two persons were arrested in …

NIA seizes cash, car as 'proceeds of terrorism' in Haryana arms recovery case
1 year, 8 months ago

NIA seizes cash, car as 'proceeds of terrorism' in Haryana arms recovery case

The Hindu  

The National Investigation Agency has seized more than ₹7.80 lakh in cash and a vehicle as "proceeds of terrorism" in a case related to the recovery of arms and explosives, smuggled from Pakistan by the proscribed Babbar Khalsa International, in Haryana last year, an official said on March 31. Four terror operatives— Gurpreet Singh alias “Gopi”, Amandeep Singh alias “Deepa”, …

Explained: How Nirav Modi scammed Punjab National Bank for Rs 14,000 crore
2 years, 1 month ago

Explained: How Nirav Modi scammed Punjab National Bank for Rs 14,000 crore

Firstpost  

Nirav Modi and his uncle, Mehul Choksi, created a complex web of deception through fraudulent Letters of Undertaking to siphon off Rs 14,000 crore from state-owned Punjab National Bank New Delhi: Pulling off one of the biggest bank frauds in the country, fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi created a complex web of deception through fraudulent Letters …

D-Gang sent Rs 12-13 crores in 4 years through Hawala for terror funding: NIA
2 years, 1 month ago

D-Gang sent Rs 12-13 crores in 4 years through Hawala for terror funding: NIA

India Today  

In the charge-sheet filed by the NIA against three arrested and two wanted accused in a case related to the D-Company, the agency has claimed that fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim sent Rs 12-13 crores for terror-funding in India during the last four years. MONEY COMING TO INDIA The NIA had first arrested two brothers, Arif Abubakar Shaikh alias Arif …

Bengaluru crime news: Duo nabbed for circulating fake currency notes
2 years, 3 months ago

Bengaluru crime news: Duo nabbed for circulating fake currency notes

Hindustan Times  

Police in Karnataka capital Bengaluru have arrested two separate duos in cases relating to bike theft and printing of fake currency notes, among others. A duo were arrested in Bengaluru for using fake currency notes and other crimes. Counterfeit notes circulated in Bengaluru, September 5 A duo called Unni and Sanal were arrested by J P Nagar police for circulating …

Fake currency notes worth ₹2.98 lakh seized in Malda, two arrested
2 years, 3 months ago

Fake currency notes worth ₹2.98 lakh seized in Malda, two arrested

Live Mint  

Fake Indian currency notes worth ₹2 lakh were seized by Special Task Force of West Bengal Police from two persons in Malda district, the police reported on Sunday. Force personnel apprehended two persons Tayab Ansari and Mansur Ali from Tulsidanga area under Gazole police station on Friday. The fake currency notes seized from the duo by the police were in …

Nearly 60% of fake money seized in 2021 were of ₹2,000 denomination: NCRB
2 years, 3 months ago

Nearly 60% of fake money seized in 2021 were of ₹2,000 denomination: NCRB

The Hindu  

Nearly 60% of all fake money seized in the year 2021 were of ₹2,000 denomination, the Crime in India 2021 report compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau shows. Of the total ₹20.39 crore fake Indian currency notes seized in 2021, ₹12.18 crore was in the denomination of ₹2,000. While in 2016, fake currency worth ₹15.92 crore was seized, the …

Guwahati: Police seize fake Indian currency worth 15 lakhs; former GNLA member among 3 arrested
2 years, 10 months ago

Guwahati: Police seize fake Indian currency worth 15 lakhs; former GNLA member among 3 arrested

India Today  

The Crime Branch and a team of East Guwahati Police District on Tuesday arrested three people, including a former member of the Garo National Liberation Army for racketeering of fake Indian currency notes. Fake Indian currency worth Rs 15 lakh seized Acting on a tip-off, a Bolero vehicle was intercepted at the Sonapur toll gate and a search was conducted. …

Mumbai :47-yr-old man arrested for printing fake currency notes in Pydhonie area
3 years, 1 month ago

Mumbai :47-yr-old man arrested for printing fake currency notes in Pydhonie area

India Today  

A 47-year-old man was arrested by Mumbai Police's Crime Intelligence Unit on Wednesday for printing fake currency notes in the Pydhonie area. Police seized 53 counterfeit notes of Rs 2,000 denomination worth Rs 1,06,000 from the accused, Shabbir Hasan Qureshi. According to CIU, these notes were printed by Qureshi at his house and police have also recovered materials like a …

Indore Police Seize Fake Currency Worth Over Rs 2.5 Lakh, One Arrested
3 years, 6 months ago

Indore Police Seize Fake Currency Worth Over Rs 2.5 Lakh, One Arrested

News 18  

A man has been arrested in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore for allegedly printing counterfeit notes in denominations of Rs 100, 500, and 2,000 on a colour printer at his home and circulating them in the market. The Indore Police have also seized fake currencies worth over Rs 2.5 lakh from his possession after arresting him from his residence on Wednesday. According …

Bank Fraud Case: ED Raids Ahmedabad-based True Value Group, Seizes Rs 6 Crore
4 years, 1 month ago

Bank Fraud Case: ED Raids Ahmedabad-based True Value Group, Seizes Rs 6 Crore

News 18  

The Enforcement Directorate on Saturday said it has carried out searches at six locations belonging to an Ahmedabad-based True Value group and another firm and seized around Rs 6 crore in connection with a bank fraud case. The agency carried out searches at the residential and office premises of the firm True Value Group and another Vipul and Manish Associates …

Fake Notes Case: NIA Files Supplementary Charge Sheet against Man from Bengal
4 years, 4 months ago

Fake Notes Case: NIA Files Supplementary Charge Sheet against Man from Bengal

News 18  

The NIA on Tuesday filed a supplementary charge sheet against a person in connection with the recovery of high-quality fake currency notes, having face value of over Rs 1.90 lakh, in 2019 from Purnea in Bihar, officials said. The National Investigation Agency took over the probe in January this year and arrested Martuja, officials said, adding that it filed charge …

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