COIMBATORE: The city police on Friday arrested two people for printing fake notes amounting to Rs 7.36 lakh in a house at Kumaran Nagar near Cheran Maa Nagar.
Police identified them as S Deepsith, 25, a call taxi driver from Namakkal and his friend S Ragavendran, 21, a native of Pudukkottai district. They had printed 368 counterfeit notes in the denomination of Rs 2,000 to circulate ahead of the festival season.
Police busted the racket while searching for a missing girl. “A 15-year-old girl from Thirumayam in Pudukkottai district had eloped with Ragavendran’s friend N Ranjithkumar, 25, a native of Sivakasi in Virudhunagar district. The couple stayed at Ragavendran’s rented house at Kumaran Nagar for a few days. After finding their location, the girl’s father and head constable L Kulasekaran from the Peelamedu (law&order) police reached the house on Thursday. As the house was locked, police requested the house owner to open it. They found the fake notes, a scanner and a printer,” a police officer said.