Delhi Police seize fake ₹2,000 fake notes with face value of ₹10 lakh

Police said the seized notes were in the denomination of ₹2,000 and were printed in Bangladesh. Police said this is the biggest catch of fake ₹2,000 banknotes in Delhi since demonetisation on November 8, 2016.

The Delhi Police on Tuesday said they had seized fake currency notes with a face value of ₹10 lakh from a 32-year-old resident of Malda in West Bengal, who was arrested on Monday near the Anand Vihar railway station.

Police said the recovered fake ₹2,000 notes appear to have been printed at a sophisticated printing unit in Bangladesh and have almost all security features. (PTI File / Representative Photo)

Police said the seized notes were in the denomination of ₹2,000 and were printed in Bangladesh. Police said this is the biggest catch of fake ₹2,000 banknotes in Delhi since demonetisation on November 8, 2016.

Deputy commissioner of police (special cell) Sanjeev Kumar Yadav said Khalik Sheikh is a member of an international syndicate, involved in pumping fake Indian banknotes into Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal.

The racketeers used the porous India-Bangladesh and India-Nepal borders for pushing such currency notes into Indian territory, the DCP said.

“The recovered fake ₹2,000 notes appear to have been printed at a sophisticated printing unit in Bangladesh and have almost all security features, including the security thread and security watermark. It would be difficult for a common person to distinguish the fake notes from the original currency,” DCP Yadav said.