Fake currency notes worth Rs. 57 thousand seized from Railway employee in Jharsuguda dist
Jharsuguda: The Brajrajnagar Police on Tuseday seized counterfeit currency notes with face value of Rs. 57 thousand from a Railway employee in Jharsuguda district of Odisha. He has been arrested.
As per reports, Police seized 114 pieces of counterfeit currency note of Rs. 500 denominations each from Raman Kumar Rajak. He works at Brajrajnagar Railway Station. He has been forwarded to the Court.
During preliminary investigation Police came to know that the fake currency notes are being smuggled from Nagpur and these are sent to Jharsuguda through Bilaspur, Jharsuguda SP intimated.
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Assam: Fake currency notes worth Rs 26 lakh seized in Chabua
Tinsukia: The police on Monday seized fake Indian currency notes amounting to over Rs 26 lakh and arrested three persons, including a woman, from Chabua in Assam‘s Dibrugarh district.
The accused have been identified as Swarnlata Chakraborty, a resident of Tinsukia; Utpal Saikia, a resident of Bordumsa in Tinsukia district; and Bipul Gohain, a resident of Khowang in Dibrugarh.
Speaking with East Mojo, Chabua police station officer-in-charge Tulumoni Dwora said: “Based on specific inputs, we intercepted a bus and a motorcycle coming from Tinsukia and recovered fake Indian currency notes amounting to Rs 2.34 lakh in the denomination of Rs 200 and Rs 500 from the possession of three persons.”
“The trio were on the way to deliver the notes ahead of the festive season,” the official added. The motorcycle used by the accused has been seized by the police.
Lear More700 boxes of liquor seized at Parwanoo
The police seized 700 boxes of country liquor, transported illegally in a truck (HP-64-A-3007), at Parwanoo, which was heading for Solan and Shimla from KM Distillery.
DSP Yogesh Rolta said driver Tikka Ram of Barog and co-driver Devinder Kumar of Jubbar village could not produce any permit issued by the Excise officials. According to the driver, distillery manager Manohar Lal had got these loaded in the truck.
A case under the Excise Act has been registered and further probe is under way.
A team of excise officials led by Deputy Commissioner Himanshu Pawar rushed to the distillery to examine the stock. Pawar said a report would be prepared after a thorough examination of the record.
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/himachal/700-boxes-of-liquor-seized-at-parwanoo-237874
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Liquor worth 39cr seized during polls
GUWAHATI: Assam’s excise department has seized over 16 lakh litres of illegal liquor worth over Rs 39 crore during the just-concluded assembly elections in the state.
An official source said the volume of the seized liquour in this election is 15 times more than the seizure in the previous assembly election in 2016.
With the apprehension of clandestine inflow of liquor into Assam from neighbouring states such as Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya, the excise department of Assam launched a strict vigil to control and check the inflow of illegal liquor and country liquor through interstate and international border ahead of the ensuing assembly elections.
“The strict enforcement of the excise laws by the department of excise in Assam, led to a seizure of at least 16,38,336 litres of illegal liquor, which is 15 times higher as compared to previous general assembly elections. The total quantity of illegal liquor seized during 2016 assembly elections was around 1,06,028 litres,” the source said.
The seizure this time includes 14,43,732 litres of illicit distilled liquor, 1,83,423 litres of IMFL and beer, 1,900 litres of country liquor, 5,634 kg of nolasses, 3,598 litres of distillation apparatus, 25 vehicle and 23 kg of ganja.
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Fake manufacturing unit raided in Gurugram, one arrested
Gurugram (Haryana) [India], April 9 (ANI): One person was arrested in Gurgaon on Friday after a unit in Gurugram manufacturing fake products was raided. Several fake products were also recovered from the unit.
As per a statement, the raid was conducted after a complaint was received regarding the manufacturing of duplicate Minda Industries Ltd products being manufactured from an employee of Brand Protection with Nucleion Risk Consulting Pvt. Ltd. 18, Gurugram, an authorized representative of Minda Industries.
“After verification, a raid was conducted at the second floor of a building in Sultan Puri where one person was found working on a Moulding machine. His identity was revealed as Satrughan Singh,” the statement said, adding that he was caught red-handed manufacturing filters of UNO MINDA & MINDA (HONDA TWO WHEELERS) without any authorisation.
Products recovered from the raid include – 540 pieces of KVT air filter 3G, 640 pieces of mestro air filter, 979 pieces of air filter cap, one moulding machine and one dye. A case has been registered at the Sultan Puri Police Station in Delhi.
https://www.zee5.com/zee5news/fake-manufacturing-unit-raided-in-gurugram-one-arrested
Lear More5 held with illicit liquor worth Rs 25 lakh in Gr Noida ahead of panchayat polls.
The Uttar Pradesh Police”s Special Task Force (STF) on Friday said it has seized illicit liquor worth Rs 25 lakh and arrested five people who were allegedly smuggling it in a truck from Haryana to Greater Noida ahead of the panchayat polls.
The suspects were held in the Dadri police station area by the Noida unit of the STF along with the local police following a tip-off, the agency said.
“There were 319 cartons of liquor in the canter truck which was intercepted near the NTPC cut in Dadri. This liquor was being brought from Haryana and supposed to be consumed in the poll-bound region with an objective to influence the elections,” the STF said in a statement.
In a separate statement, the Gautam Buddh Nagar police said the cost of the seized liquor is estimated to be around Rs 25 lakh.
Apart from the truck, the police said they also impounded a hatchback from the accused persons, who have been identified as Qasim, Saddam, Rakesh Chandela, Rajendra and Gaurav.
Additional Superintendent of Police, STF, Raj Kumar Mishra said the accused had made a secret cavity in their truck and hid the liquor in it.
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$1.64 million in counterfeit currency seized by Customs this year at O’Hare
Customs agents have seized more than $1 million in counterfeit currency so far this year at O’Hare International Airport.
The fake cash and coins were seized in more than 100 different shipments that went through O’Hare, which processes about 20% of all international mail entering the U.S., according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Criminal groups sometimes ship counterfeit money by hiding the cash in parcels, but customs agents use technology to find and seize the currency, the agency said.
“It is a lucrative business which is often used to finance illegal activities such as trafficking in human beings and drugs, and even terrorism.” Shane Campbell, Area Port Director-Chicago, said in a statement.
Through the end of March, officers at O’Hare seized 80 shipments of counterfeit currency, 24 shipments of fake silver dollars and five shipments of counterfeit foreign currency, including over $95,000 in Euros. The total value was $1.64 million.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2021/4/6/22370047/counterfeit-currency-seized-customs-ohare
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Shop owner booked for selling rip-offs of electrical products
Vadodara: An electric shop owner in Dabhoi was on Friday booked for selling fake products of a company manufacturing electrical items and materials. Company’s officials and a private investigator hired by them unearthed the counterfeit scam, police informed.
After receiving the information from the company representatives, Vadodara rural police raided the shop owned by Mitesh Patel on Friday and found counterfeit Polycab India Limited products worth Rs 47,871 in the shop. Police said that the company’s officials and a private investigator had found that Patel was selling fake products.
The private investigator told the police that the company was suspicious about the sudden drop in sales of its product in Dabhoi. During the probe it was found that many shop owners were selling counterfeit products of the company.
On Friday, the investigator and an official of the company went to Patel’s shop as decoy customers and asked for a cable. When the official verified that the product was a fake, they informed police.
During the interrogation, Patel told cops that he had purchased the fake products, worth Rs 29,000, from a man named Bhatia living on Ajwa Road. Police said that Patel doesn’t know much about Bhaita’s whereabouts. However, based on his mobile phone number police are trying to trace him. Both, Patel and Bhatia, were booked at Dabhoi police station.
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Assam: Fake Indian currency notes with face value of Rs 12.5 lakh seized near Guwahati
Amid the Assam Assembly election, the police seized fake Indian currency notes with a face value of Rs 12.5 lakh.
On the basis of secret information, the Assam Police launched an operation and were able to recover and seize the fake Indian currency notes at Jorbat near Guwahati.
The police team also arrested a person for possessing fake Indian currency notes. According to reports, the fake Indian currency notes were being carried from Nagaon to Guwahati.
The arrested person has been identified as 37-year-old Abdul Rezaque from Lakhimpur district. It has been reported that Abdul Rezaque was carrying the fake Indian currency notes from Nagaon to be delivered some person in Guwahati.
In October 2020, the Crime Branch of the Asam Police arrested a gang of four youths in Guwahati for their involvement in an Indian fake currency note (FICN) racket.
On a tip-off, a team of the Crime Branch of the Assam Police suddenly carried out an operation at Milan Path in Panjabari’s Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Road and seized fake Indian currency notes of a face value of lakhs.
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Passengers arrested for smuggling gold and foreign currency under their wigs at Chennai airport
CHENNAI: Six persons were arrested at Chennai Airport while attempting to smuggle gold and foreign currency hidden under their wig.
The Customs department has seized 5.5 kilograms of gold worth Rs 2.53 crore and foreign currency worth Rs 24 lakh.
According to the official statement, Magroob Akbarali (39) of Ramanathapuram and Zubair Hassan Rafiyutheen (26) of Chennai were intercepted at the exit since their hairstyles looked suspicious.
On examination, it was found that they wore wigs and had partly tonsured heads. Two gold paste packets weighing 698 grams were found concealed under their wigs.
In a similar incident that took place on Friday, Syed Ahamedulla (22) of Ramnathapuram, Santhosh Selvam (33) of Salem and Abdullah (35) of Chennai were arrested for concealing gold in their wigs when they landed from Dubai and Sharjah. Three gold paste packets weighing 2410 grams were found concealed
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