Delhi: Fake Indian Currency Notes gang busted, kingpin arrested

The Special Cell of the Delhi Police has arrested one of the key persons involved in pumping Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) in the country. The accused Narendra alias Secretary was wanted by the Cell after his associates, who were earlier arrested, said that Secretary was the kingpin of the gang. The Delhi Police had previously declared a reward of a lakh on his arrest.

"The police received a tip-off that Narendra would be visiting his hometown in Haryana's Rohtak area. A trap was laid and he was arrested from Rohtak. Rs 30,000 fake notes in the denomination of Rs 2,000 were found in his possession. The accused and his gang members were pushing the fake currency notes through porous borders," said Pramod Kushwah, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Special Cell.

According to the police, Narendra has been in the business for a long time and was earlier arrested thrice between 2013 and 2014 by police forces from Faridabad, Rohtak and Sirsa. Narendra is involved in over two dozen cases of robbery, dacoity, arms Act and FICN. Cases have been registered against him in Delhi, Rajasthan and Haryana. In two cases, he has been convicted as well.

He told the police that he would procure the fake currency and drugs from the Kaliachak area in West Bengal from different sources, who used to smuggle these fake notes from Pakistan, through the Bangladesh border.

Narendra and his associate, who also bears the name Narendra, had visited Malda in West Bengal to procure the fake currency. While his associate was sent back to the Capital to deliver the consignment, Secretary stayed back and it was his associate who was arrested. Narendra, who was out on bail in 2017, managed to avoid arrest. The police teams were constantly monitoring his movements, following which the arrest was made.