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Cops bust fake currency racket, nab 4

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November 20, 2016

Jaipur, Nov 20: Ahead of festive season, the crime branch of Jaipur police commissionerate on Tuesday busted a racket involved in circulation of counterfeit currency notes. Acting on a tip off by crime branch, the Amber police in the city have arrested four persons, including three from Malda (West Bengal) and seized Rs 2,97,500. A team of Jaipur police is camping in Malda to arrest another member of counterfeit currency notes gang.

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Addressing a press conference, commissioner of police Sanjay Agarwal said that crime branch had some inputs that a haul of counterfeit currency notes has arrived in Jaipur and it was to be circulated in the city ahead of festive season.

"Our team kept a vigil on a suspect Khemraj (26), a native of Jaipur. Later, it was found that he was talking to two strangers on counterfeit notes. Thus, a team of Amber police first apprehended the threesome and later arrested them," Agarwal said.

The other two persons were identified as Anarul Sheikh (40) and Aalam Momin(27), both natives of Malda. "A joint team will interrogate the accused to know more about their nexus and will also find out how much counterfeit notes they managed to circulate in the market," the commissioner added. Police said the quality of counterfeit note is good as it is hard for a layman to differentiate between the original and fake one.

"During interrogation, the two persons from Malda said that they have received the notes from one Naushad and Quyyum Sheikh, both natives of Malda. Our team is already camping in Malda and have apprehended some persons. We are likely to arrest more persons who were part of this gang," Agarwal said.

In the evening, Jaipur police succeeded in arresting Naushad in Malda with the help of local police.

"Our team managed to arrest Naushad and are coordinating with the local police in west Bengal to arrest the other accused Quyyum," said Anshuman Bhomia, deputy commissioner of police (North).Box -

Accused Khemraj was arrested by Brahmpuri police in 2010 and was convicted in the case with an imprisonment of four years. After completing his sentence, he again started the malpractice

The smugglers used to give triple of the fake currency notes in lieu of an amount. Police said if Rs 1 lakh as cash are given to the smugglers, they will in return give counterfeit currency notes of Rs 3 lakh

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May 21,2020

Bengaluru, May 21:Tragedy struck an elderly migrant worker who was looking forward to joining his family as he died on reaching a nearby railway station to board a Shramik Special train to his home state Madhya Pradesh, police said on Thursday.

The 69-year old man, who worked in a coffee estate in Chikkamagaluru, collapsed and died soon after getting down from a state-run KSRTC bus that brought him and others to the Chikkabanavara Railway station on Wednesday.

According to police, fellow labourers said he had been ailing for quite some time.

The cause of his death would be known only after a post-mortem, police added.

Karnataka government has been sending back thousands of migrant workers stranded in the state due to the COVID-19 lockdown by arranging the special trains.

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February 16,2020

Five Bajrang Dal activists have been arrested for allegedly indulging in vandalism in the city on Valentines Day, police said.

They said about 10 to 15 activists on two wheelers vandalised a shop in Kattupalli area in Hyderabad on February 14.

They held aloft flags and raised slogans against celebration of Valentines Day and "created havoc" at different malls, a police press release said.

On receiving information, police rushed to a mall, but the Bajrang Dal activists escaped from the spot.

Five of them were later identified with the help of CCTV footage and arrested, police said.

The others too have been identified and efforts were on to nab them, police said.

Two cases have been registered against them under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code on a complaint from shop owners, the release said.

 

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February 6,2020

Kochi, Feb 6: A 46-year-old Thailand national was allegedly raped by two men here, following which they were arrested, police said on Thursday.

The accused hailing from a north Kerala district have been arrested on the basis of a complaint lodged by the woman.

Police said the accused-- Mohammed Insaf and his friend Ansaruddin from Kondotty in Malappuram district were arrested after recording the statement of the victim.

The woman from Thailand had been a Facebook friend of Insaf for the last seven months after she enrolled her child in a school in Malappuram district.

The woman who came from Bangkok recently to visit her child and was staying in a hotel here.

When Insaf came to meet the woman, he was accompanied by his friend Ansaruddin and both allegedly raped the woman at the hotel room, police said.

All formalities including medical examination of the woman were completed, police said.

The accused will be produced before the court on Thursday, they added.

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