Aligarh. Police arrested four members of a gang smuggling fake notes with Indian Entertainment Bank written on them on Tuesday. Two of these accused are from Jammu and Kashmir and two from Badaun. 470 bundles of fake notes of Rs 500 each were recovered from them in two trolleys.
In reality, this amounts to Rs 2 crore 35 lakh. This gang used to show these notes to people from a distance through video calls. They used to assure them that these notes will be accepted everywhere except banks.
They used to cheat people by luring them to give more than three times the amount of notes in exchange for real money. During interrogation, the accused have confessed to cheating many people. Police is gathering information about this.
This is the whole case
SP City Mrigank Shekhar Pathak said that information about the gang was received from the police of Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh. The accused had ordered tomatoes worth Rs 35 lakh from there. They had given Rs 15 lakh in return. The notes on top were real and the ones below were fake. The local police also raided the place. On this basis, Salim of Mohalla Kira Kakarala Ward No. 17 of Alhapur police station area of Badayun, Hasnain of Kakarala Ward No. 20 of Alhapur area, Mukhtar Ahmed Wani of Hirpura of Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir and Basarat Hameed of Kutpora of Shopian district were arrested near Nizami Pulia. Hasnain was currently living in a flat in Alsher Apartment in New Sir Syed Nagar. A pistol (32 bore), two magazines, 41 cartridges and fake notes were recovered from them. Bharatiya Manoranjan Bank is written on each note. During interrogation, the accused told that they used to cheat people by luring them with notes that looked like real ones. They used to open a bag full of fake notes from a distance on video call to the interested person. They used to assure that all these notes are like real ones. This made the person believe that these notes will not be accepted in the bank, but will be used freely in the market. These people take 15 lakh real notes in exchange for fake notes worth Rs 50 lakh.
They used to keep pistols to deal with adverse situations. All four have been sent to jail. Five cases are registered against Salim in Badaun, Bareilly, two against Hasnain in Bareilly and Aligarh, one each against Mukhtar and Basahat.
They themselves were cheated twice, had planned to make up for it
According to the police, Mukhtar and Basahat have also been victims of similar fraud twice. In December 2023, the thug lured them to Jammu and Kashmir. They reached there with Rs 15 lakh. They were about to leave from there when the police raided. They fled from there. Later it was found out that the notes were fake. Similarly, they were cheated of Rs 5 lakh in Bihar too. After this, both of them planned to cheat other people to make up for it.
A person from Bangalore had provided the money to the accused from Delhi
This money was provided to the accused by a person from Bangalore from Delhi. He knows from where he used to get the notes and who used to make the notes. In such a situation, two police teams are searching for him.
