Fake/Counterfeit New Currency Notes of Rs 2,000/- denominations amounting to Rs. 18 lacs recovered

• Three members of the well organized racket involved in scanning, printing and circulating Fake / Counterfeit new currency arrested.  
• A Scorpio car and a Motor-Cycle alongwith 3 mobile phones also recovered.

A team of Special Cell, Northern Range, led by Insp. Sanjay Nagpal, well assisted by Inspr. Prabhat Kumar, under the supervision of Shri Pankaj Sood, ACP has arrested three members of a well organized racket, involved in scanning, printing and circulating Fake / Counterfeit new currency, namely (1) Azad Singh, aged 36 years s/o Prem Singh r/o Village Bakner, Narela, Delhi, (2) Manoj @ Sonu, aged 37 years, s/o Late Shri Sukhbir Singh r/o Village Nahri, District Sonepat, Haryana and (3) Sunil, aged 27 years, s/o Shri Satbir Singh r/o Village Nahri, District Sonepat, Haryana on the intervening night of 27/28.01.2017 at about 11:25 PM from NH-1, near Traffic Light Signal, Village Singhola, Narela, Delhi. Fake / Counterfeit New Currency Notes of Rs 2,000/- denominations amounting to Rs. 18 lacs has so far been recovered from their possession. Besides, a Scorpio car and a M/Cy alongwith 3 mobile phones are also recovered from them.

Development of information and action plan

Legal tender of old currency notes of higher value had more or less expired on the 30th day of December’ 2016 and new currency came into existence on 8th day of November’ 2016. Few anti-national / anti-social elements took it as opportunity to befool the general public by trying to circulate Fake notes of high value new currency taking the advantage of the inexperience of general public who do not exactly differentiate between genuine and fake new currency notes. The arrested accused persons are members of one such racket who started preparing and circulating Fake / Counterfeit new currency for their own benefit.   

In order to save the interest of general public at large, Special Cell of Delhi Police was trying to develop information about such wrong doer opportunists and hence, sources were deployed to develop such information. Moreover, technical surveillance was also mounted on the basis of leads procured by the secret sources.

In that process, on 27.01.2017, a specific information was received to Ct Kuldeep that a racket comprising of criminals of Sonepat, Haryana and Narela, Delhi are involved in scanning, printing and circulating such Fake / Counterfeit new currency of high value and member of that racket would assemble near traffic signal light, Village Singhola, Narela at NH-1 at around 11:00 PM in a Scorpio car and would exchange Fake / Counterfeit currency with their associates.

Team and incident

Working on this specific information, a raiding party was immediately constituted with SI Neeraj Kumar, ASI Ajay, ASI Hari, ASI Bijender, ASI Mahender, HC Devender, HC Nirmal Singh, Ct. Kuldeep, HC (Dvr.) Anil and others under the leadership of Insp. Prabhat Kumar.

At about 11:25 PM, the said scorpio car was located by the team parked near the above traffic light signal. Azad Singh was seen occupying the scorpio car alone. After a short while, Manoj @ Sonu and Sunil reached there on a M/Cycle. Azad Singh stepped out from the car and delivered two packets, one each to Manoj @ Sonu and Sunil. Wasting no time, the raiding party cordoned the trio and overpowered them after a brief scuffle. Both the packets were found containing Fake / Counterfeit currency worth Rs 8 lacs each whereas accused Azad Singh was further found in possession of Rs 2 lacs of Fake / counterfeit currency. All the recovered 18 lacs of Fake / Counterfeit currency was in the denomination of Rs 2,000/-. The recovered notes were actually scanned and printed one but very much resemble with the genuine notes.

A case under appropriate sections of law has been registered and all the three accused persons have since been arrested. The Scorpio Car as well as M/cycle alongwith the 3 mobile phones, recovered from the possession of accused persons, are also seized.

Modus operendi and gist of interrogation of arrestees  

The arrestees are part of a racket that is indulged in scanning, printing and circulating of Fake / Counterfeit new currency of higher value. Azad Singh is the mastermind of the racket who used to get the currency notes scanned and printed whereas the other two Manoj @ Sonu and Sunil are supposed to circulate the Fake / Counterfeit notes to the customers. Besides, Azad Singh has his own customers too.

Accused Manoj @ Sonu is known to a Delhi based Hawala Dealer. He as well as Azad Singh has liaison with various “Bookies”. Huge cash transaction is being done in both these illegal trades and sizable amount of fake currency notes can easily be adjusted in big cash transactions. Taking the benefit of this fact, they enticed the hawala dealer and Bookies and so far had supplied fake currency especially to “Bookies” on many occasions. They charge Rs 40,000/- genuine currency for Rs 1,00,000/- fake currency.     

Brief criminal profile of arrested accused persons :

1. Azad Singh, aged 36 years s/o Prem Singh r/o Village Bakner, Delhi

The so far interrogation of Azad Singh revealed that he is a school dropout and started assisting his father in farming. This accused has 2 previous criminal involvements. In the year 2000-01, for want of easy money, he alongwith his associates committed robbery of  Rs 3 lacs from a Sonepat, Haryana based businessman but was soon arrested. Again in the year 2013, out of family enmity, he again indulged himself in an abduction and attempt to murder case registered at PS Narela. He is presently out on bail.

Both his previous criminal involvements show his criminal instinct. In order to meet with his lavish day to day expenses, he weaved the racket and started this illegal trade. He enticed several persons including the co-arrestees to join the illegal trade. Other of his racketeers are being identified.       

2. Manoj @ Sonu, aged 37 years s/o Satbir Singh r/o Village Nahri, Sonipat (Haryana)

The so far interrogation of Manoj @ Sonu revealed that he is a school dropout. He was also doing farming at his village. This accused was also previously involved in 2 criminal cases including rape and vehicle theft. Both these cases are registered at PS Narela. In the year 2000, he alongwith one of his associate committed rape with a lady who was working as house maid in the area of Narela. The rape was committed at a secluded place along railway tracks. In the year 2011, he was apprehended while in possession of stolen M/Cy. He was arrested in that case.

Both his previous criminal involvements show his criminal instinct. Azad Singh influenced him and convinced him to join the present racket and tasked him to look for persons who deal in transaction of huge cash. The motive was that sizable amount of fake currency notes could be adjusted in big cash transactions. He has connections with a Delhi based Hawala Dealer and with some “Bookies”. He joined the racket and actively participated in the activities for easy money. He had supplied fake currency to Bookies known to him on 2-3 occasions.     

3. Sunil Kumar, aged 26 years s/o Ajit Singh r/o Village Nahri, Sonipat (Haryana)

The so far interrogation of accused Sunil Kumar also revealed that he is also a school dropout and assist his father in farming work. Being the neighbor, he was an easy target for accused Manoj @ Sonu, who enticed him to join this illegal trade. Expecting easy money, he joined the syndicate and started assisting Manoj @ Sonu to collect and deliver fake / counterfeit currency. He was also tasked to search for more prospective buyers of fake / counterfeit currency.