NEW DELHI:
A person allegedly dealing in counterfeit currency notes has been arrested by the North Delhi police. The accused had earlier been arrested in a similar case.
According to the police, Shokinder Singh, a native of Uttar Pradesh, was arrested near Presentation Convent at Kotwali on Wednesday. The police recovered a total of 873 fake currency notes of Rs. 100 denomination.
Shokinder had rented an accommodation at Gokulpuri in North-East Delhi where he had installed a computer scanner and printer for faking the currency notes.
The police carried out a raid there and seized the hardware along with a few rubber seals with Mahatma Gandhi's impression.
The police said Shokinder had earlier been arrested by the Hari Nagar police in West Delhi in 2002. He and his accomplice, Rajbir Singh, a resident of U.P., had been involved in the trade since 2001. Initially, the accused had dealt with in fake currency in the rural area and later shifted to Delhi.
Following his release from jail in the Hari Nagar case, Shokinder again teamed up with Rajbir who set up a fake currency manufacturing unit in Rampur.
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