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Two held with Rs 1.20 lakh in fake currency notes

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Press Trust of India Jhansi (UP)
Two persons were arrested with counterfeit currency notes with a face value of Rs 1.20 lakh at the Jhansi railway station here, Government Railway Police (GRP) said.

During the routine checking, two youths were nabbed with fake currency notes of Rs 2,000 denomination to the tune of Rs 1.20 lakh, SP Railway Om Prakash Singh said.

The accused, one hailing from Shivpuri of Madhya Pradesh and the other from Babina area of Jhansi said that they had brought the notes from New Delhi for using them in the Bundelkhand region, the SP said.

He said that mobile phones of the accused were also being analysed to get more information about their associates.

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First Published: Nov 21 2017 | 12:48 PM IST

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