10 April,2018 08:00 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online desk
Mumbai Crime Branch on Monday arrested a 25-year-old man, hailing from West Bengal, carrying fake currency worth Rs. 1 lakh at Masjid Bunder railway station. Police said that the currency was in the denomination of Rs 2,000.
Shafiqueul Sheikh, a resident of Malda in West Bengal, was arrested by Unit-2 of the Mumbai Crime Branch from the Masjid Bunder railway station bridge in South Mumbai on Monday, an official said.
The Crime Branch sleuths had got a tip-off that a person was arriving with fake currency notes, said the official. Police seized 50 high-quality counterfeit notes of Rs 2,000 from Sheikh, said senior inspector Prashant Raje of Unit-2.
"We are investigating their source," he said. Sheikh was allegedly going to distribute the notes to some persons in the city. Police are probing his local connections and since when he was involved in this racket, said Raje. Sheikh was produced before a court which sent him in police custody till April 13, the officer added.
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(With Inputs from Agencies)
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