Fake dollar racket busted

NEW DELHI: With the arrest of one Santosh Kumar Gupta(42) along with his accomplices, Ravi Shankar Mishra(35) and Om Prakash Aggarwal(67), the east district police have busted a racket involved in the print and supply of counterfeit US Dollars.

The breakthrough came when a police personnel, acting on secret information, went and struck a deal with the accused, upon which a raid was conducted and 98 fake currency notes of $100 denomination were recovered.

Interrogation revealed that the notes were printed at Babarpur, Shahdara, from where a computer, printer cum scanner, dye for hundred dollar notes, offset printing machine and other raw material for printing counterfeit notes were seized, police said.

Om Prakash was a resident of Nepal and claimed printing of counterfeit notes was rampant there. He received his training there and shifted base to Delhi six months back. These notes were printed and sent to Nepal through Raxaul Border to various persons with a well established contact base throughout Nepal.