Acting on a tip off, the DRI sleuths raided the office of a courier service at Raxaul and seized a consignment containing 51 bundles of notes with face value of Rs 25.43 lakh, a DRI official said.
They also arrested the consignee Ali Akhtar Ansari, a native of Singraulia village under Ghorasahah police station area of the district, when he came to claim the packet yesterday, the official said.
The counterfeit notes were in denomination of Rs 500, the official said, adding, 28-year-old Ansari has been booked under the Customs Act and sent to jail.