A 25-year-old man was arrested and a juvenile detained for allegedly printing and circulating fake currency notes in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Tuesday. Acting on a tip-off, officials of the city's police's crime unit-I nabbed the accused in Mumbra area on Monday evening, inspector Krishna Kokni said.
The police seized 250 fake notes of Rs 100 denomination from the accused Jaid Chandbadshah Shaikh, a resident of Rashind Compound, he said. On questioning, the arrested accused revealed that a 17-year-old boy had allegedly printed and supplied the notes to him, the official said. The police raided the boy's residence and found a laptop, 91 counterfeit notes of Rs 100, nine sheets of papers on which the currency notes were printed among other items, he said.
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An offence under relevant sections of the IPC has been registered with the Mumbra police station, the official said, adding that further probe is underway.
(With PTI Inputs)
