Meerut. In Meerut, SOG team, Lisadi Gate and Ganga Nagar police station have busted a gang who used to make people their victims in the name of giving fake notes of three times the value. A home guard Satendra Sharma, who played an important role in the black and white business of fake counterfeit notes, has been arrested along with his brother Krishna Sharma, Mohsin, Nazim Mahtab and Arshad.
SP Crime held a press conference
The police have recovered fake currency notes worth Rs 53 lakh, including the original 15 thousand notes. In a press conference in Meerut on Friday, SP Crime Anit Kumar said that the team of SOG and Lisadi Gate, Ganga Nagar police station have busted a gang that is trying to give fake notes of one lakh rupees to people in exchange for thirty thousand rupees. They used to give greed and when someone got caught in their clutches, first they used to tell them the real notes as fake notes. After which when the note used to go in the market.
Used to deal like this
After that people used to deal with this gang. When people used to come to take consignments of fake notes from them, then as soon as the people of the gang used to call them at some identified places and take real notes from them instead of giving them fake notes, then the home guard Satendra and his brother involved in the gang used to reach in police uniform. And the gang members who came to give fake fake notes and used to grab the bag.
Only four or five real notes in the deck
Seeing whom the person came to take the note was scared, the home guards used to scold him and drive him away, due to which the person who became a victim of fraud did not even complain anywhere due to fear. The caught gang used to put four or five real notes on the top and bottom in the pile of fake notes and used to put white paper cut in the middle of the size of the note and make people a victim of their fraud by wrapping it in a bundle. .
The accused were trying to run the money in Kanwar Yatra
The accused had decided to run the amount of 25 lakhs during the Kanwar Yatra. He said that during the Kanwar Yatra, fake money would be dropped in the market. In return, the real amount will be made. The accused told that they used to give fake notes to many people of the city after taking 45 percent of the real amount. Fake notes used to run like this: Real notes were put in the top and bottom of the pile. Earlier, the original note was given to the buyer as a fake, who used to run it in the market as a fake. He used to think that fake notes are running easily in the market.
Used to mix like this
After that, they used to supply fake notes by putting real notes up and down in the pile. Whoever protested later. Home guards and his brother dressed in khaki uniforms would walk up to him, who would pacify him by threatening to put him in jail. Inspector Rajpal Singh said that six accused, including home guards, have been caught with fake notes. Officers are interrogating him and trying to recover the fake currency.
