Fake currency notes with face value of Rs. 73,000 were recovered from a man at Raxaul town in Bihar's East Champaran district, an official said today.
Acting on a tip off, the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) men apprehended one Sahim Alam (21) with the consignment of fake currency notes with face value of Rs. 73,000, after he got down from an autorickshaw at Gamharia-Laxmipur chowk last evening, SSB's 13th battalion Commandant Rakesh Sinha said.
The accused, native of a village under Abhapur police station area of the district, confessed of having been given the consignment of counterfeit notes by a relative of an incarcerated man Munna Mian for delivery to a client in New Delhi, he said.
Alam was supposed to catch a Delhi-bound train last night to hand over the consignment of fake currency notes for delivery to a client at Anand Vihar railway station in the national capital, Sinha said.
The accused further told the interrogators that he had delivered fake currency notes with face value of Rs. One lakh to another client in New Delhi recently, the SSB's 13th battalion commandant said.
