The trio have been identified as Manoj Kumar, Sanjay Kumar Shah and Deepak Kumar and fake notes of face value Rs 79,000 were recovered from them, Phagwara DSP Kanwalpreet Singh Chahal said.
While Manoj, who belongs to Katahra in Sultanganj district and Sanjay from Godiar in Purnea district, lived in Hoshiarpur Road here, Deepak, from Dadhoi in Betia district, lived in Chak Des Raj village of Jalandhar, he said.
The accused had already supplied fake notes of face value Rs 5 to 6 lakh in Phagwara, Goraya and Hoshiarpur. They brought the notes from one Mukhtiyar Sahni in Patna, Chahal said.