Three, held with fake currency notes, sent to NIA remand

GUWAHATI: A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court here on Tuesday sent three people, who are accused of running a counterfeit currency racket, to four days of NIA remand. The three accused, identified as Motaleb Ali, Dilbar Hussain and Amir Hamza, were arrested from Islampur area of Paltan Bazar here in April with fake Indian currency notes (FICNs) of having a face value of Rs 1,84,000.
Though initially the Paltan Bazar police had probed the case, NIA took over following an order issued from the counter-terrorism and counter-radicalisation division of the Union home ministry. Subsequently, the NIA re-registered the case at its Guwahati branch under sections related to criminal conspiracy, cheating and possession of forged or counterfeit currency of the IPC.
Sources in NIA said, "The NIA has taken over the investigation since the racket was suspected to have international links. The FICNs seized were of very high quality and were suspected to have been smuggled from Bangladesh."
A previous NIA probe had revealed that such high quality counterfeit notes were manufactured in Pakistan and then pumped into the country for terror funding.