Rs. 28 crore duplicate currency notes: Gurmit Singh from Delhi emerges as main accused

Surat: Surat rural police have nabbed the main accused in the case of supplying duplicate currency notes from Delhi.

The duplicate currency notes of over Rs 28 crore were found in an ambulance of Dikri Education & Charitable Trust beside a hotel at National Highway 48 in the Kamrej police station area.

The driver of the ambulance cum trustee had allegedly tried to misguide the police by saying that the currency notes were being supplied for film shooting. Though the police undertook a strict inquiry due to suspicion.

The police held 11 accused from Delhi, Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Maharashtra during the investigation. The main accused Gurmit Singh Jagjit Singh Thathal (age 43, lives in wz 283/135, third floor, Mathivali Gali number 5, Vishnu Garden, Tilak Nagar, Delhi West) had allegedly supplied duplicate currency notes of over Rs 334 crore from Delhi to Mumbai after printing. The police seized duplicate currency notes of Rs 17 crore by raiding at his office. He was nabbed and produced in court. The court approved his 8-day remand.

The main accused Gurumit Singh is associated with the business of bouncers. A deal was made between the accused Gurumit Singh and the previously nabbed accused Vikas Paramchand Jain and Pravin Jain to print duplicate currency notes of various rates. The main accused Gurumit Singh had managed to print the duplicate notes in Delhi and supplied them to Vikas. He had received Rs 13 lakh in exchange for it.
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