An official of BSF Mizoram and Cachar Frontier today said on a specific tip-off from BSF Intelligence wing, the police first raided village Nagatilla locality near Silchar town and arrested three people.
They also recovered Rs 2,20,000 from the possession of the arrested, identified as Manikuddin (30), a residence of Kanakpur village in Karimganj district, Nabendu Das (28) and Taz Uddin (30), both are residents of village Alamkhani in Karimganj.
Based on the information provided by the Assam Police, subsequent raids and search operations were also conducted by BSF and Karimganj police on the intervening night of Thursday at the house of Amaduddin (22) in Ilyaspur locality near Patharkandi in Karimganj.
They apprehended Amaduddin with fake currency notes amounting to Rs 1,500 in denomination of Rs 500, printing equipment, including a monitor, a CPU, a UPS, and a scanner-cum-printer with cartridge and ink.
Raid and search operations were continued further on the same intervening night by BSF and police party at the house of Mohd Abu Bakar (25), a kingpin of fake currency racket in village Badezama, and his computer shop at village Baregram Bazar in Karimganj district, but Bakar managed to flee. However, during search of his house and shop, fake currency notes amounting to Rs 14,010, some illegal stamp papers and fake currency note printing equipment were seized.
An FIR was lodged with Karimganj police station, the official said, adding all the arrested people and the seized items had been handed over to Karimganj police for further investigation.
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