Police and Anti-Terrorist Squad officials today arrested seven smugglers and seized from them Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) with a face value of Rs 9.5 lakh from Bihar's Gaya and West Champaran district.
The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) arrested six smugglers with FICN of the face value of Rs 5.5 lakh from Dobhi police station area in Bihar's Gaya district, ATS Inspector Arjun Lal said.
Acting on a tip-off, the ATS team arrested the smugglers - Zaheer Abbas, Uday Kumar, Kedar Paswan, Santu Singh, Ajay Kumar and Madan Paswan from Hunterganj-Dobhi canal and seized a consignment of fake currency notes of the denomination of Rs 1000 and Rs 500 that Abbas had brought from Malda in West Bengal, Lal said.
Eight mobile phones and three motorcycles were also seized from the smugglers, he said.
Another smuggler was today arrested with a consignment of FICN of the face value of Rs four lakh from a locality near Indo-Nepal border in Bihar's West Champaran district, Superintendent of Police (SP) Vinay Kumar said.
Acting on an input by the NIA, a joint police team of East and West Champaran district intercepted a biker Dinesh Kumar Sah near Bhakaria chowk on NH-28 and seized counterfeit currency notes with face value of Rs four lakh.
The smuggler was carrying the consignment of fake currency notes in denomination of Rs 1000 and Rs 500 for delivery to a client in Bettiah town, he said.
The smuggler had brought the fake currency notes from Malda in West Bengal, Kumar said, adding Sah was being interrogated.
