West Bengal: Two held with fake currency in Siliguri
According to reports, acting on specific source inputs, CID arrested Assam Rifle's ex-serviceman Pradeep Gogoi and his companion Sudhir Sarkar alias Sudhir Mondal and seized huge FICN from their possessions.
"Pradeep Gogoi, who is a resident of Dibrugarh in Assam, and West Bengal's Malda district's resident Sudhir Sarkar are the kingpins of a North-East based FICN racket," a senior official of CID told IBNS.
"We are interrogating them to kbow more about the racket and about its other operatives," he added.
The duo will be produced to a local court on Monday.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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