Ahmedabad: Railway Police Force (RPF) personnel seized fake currency notes of Rs 2000 denomination, with a face value of Rs 1.44 crore, from Gandhinagar resident Vikas Sharma who travelled by the Rajdhani Express from Delhi.
The 31-year-old Sharma and another person were arrested on Wednesday morning from platform No. 5 of Kalupur railway station after the Rajdhani arrived.
“We received a tip-off that an accused was carrying counterfeit currency notes in a black colour trolley bag… A trap was set and the accused was nabbed as soon as he stepped out of the train. We found 7,240 currency notes of Rs 2000-denomination value in the bag that appeared to be fake in prima facie investigation. The notes were then sent to Forensic Science Laboratory experts who confirmed that they were fake as there was no watermark on them, the paper quality was inferior and all the notes had the same serial number,” informed an officer at Ahmedabad Railway Police Station.
“The accused told us that he was given these notes in Delhi by one Hansraj Lohar from Jodhpur in Rajasthan, who asked him to carry the notes by train while he himself was supposed to land in Ahmedabad by flight on December 30. Sharma told us that he was supposed to hand over the fake notes to Lohar in Ahmedabad on Wednesday evening,” the officer added.
Lohar was arrested from Ahmedabad on Thursday evening.
Sharma and Lohar have been booked under IPC sections 489A for counterfeiting currency notes, 489B for using as genuine forged currency notes and 489C for possession of forged currency notes along with 120B for criminal conspiracy.
