Assam STF arrests two in less than a week in a fake currency note case

The accused, identified as Md. Bulbul Alam (31), was arrested at 4:30 am on Sunday from his rented house located at Dakhingaon, in Hatigaon Police Station area of Guwahati.

Police said he hails from the Barpeta district of Assam.

This arrest came after an STF team conducted an operation on July 5 in Guwahati where a person named Md. Sahanoor Islam (28), was apprehended near the ISBT bypass.

Based on the information derived from his interrogation, an operation was conducted at the house of the accused person located at Ahom Gaon, Guwahati from where bundles of photostated Indian currency notes of 500 denominations and bundles of blank white papers of size and shape of Indian currency notes of 500 denominations were recovered.

According to police, Md. Sahanoor Islam lured people by providing double the amount of counterfeit notes against the original Indian currency notes one comes to him for exchange.

Police had seized a Maruti Breeza vehicle used by the accused, four mobile phones, and a pistol-look-alike lighter from the possession of the accused during the July 5 operation.