UDAIPUR: The city police on Tuesday seized fake currency notes worth Rs 6 lakh and arrested two persons from Sajjangarh Road under the Ambamata police station.
Acting on a tip off, the special task force in a joint operation with the Ambamata police team held a search at a refreshment stall run by one Saddam, a resident of Kotra block, on Sajjangarh Road and found fake currency notes of 500 denominations in a bag. Police arrested Saddam and his aide Amin alias Sonu from the spot.
Prima facie, it is assumed that the accused were part of a nexus that circulated fake currencies in the market. Police would now investigate who supplied these fake notes to them if they had on earlier occasions circulated the currencies through the customers who came to have refreshments at their stall. The case has been taken under IPC sections 489 (counterfeiting currency notes), 120 B for criminal conspiracy and 34 (acts done by several persons towards common intent).