Bengal youth held with fake currency notes
May 04, 2014
Ahmedabad, 4 May, 2014
Ahmedabad Police’s Crime Branch has arrested a person from Bengal in city’s Navrangpura area with 41,000 fake currency notes.
The person Ziarul Islam Harun Rashied Sheikh(24) was working in Sai printing press in Navrangpura. He is originally from West Bengal. He was held with 41 currency notes of Rs. 1,000.
According to city crime branch ACP AL Chaudhary, Zia is working in Sai printing press for last around seven years. When he was on way to his native place in Bengal, he met one Rafiq who works in Surat Manek chawk. Rafiq asked Zia to get involved in fake currency network. Rafiq called Zia and gave him Rs. 60,000 worth fake currency notes in exchange of real notes of Rs. 40,000. Zia used to spend fake notes in Ahmedabad’s Lal Darwaja, Dhalgarwad based markets. He had spent Rs. 19,000 so far.
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