KOLKATA: The Anti-Fake Indian Currency Note team of the
Special Task Force
(
STF
) of Kolkata arrested a man from Dufferin Road, beside Maidan in central Kolkata, in West Bengal on charges of possessing fake notes and firearms.
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According to police, Akhtar Kajmi -- a resident of Hazratganj at Munger in Bihar who is a dealer of illegal firearms and fake notes -- was intercepted by the cops around 6pm on Tuesday. “He is a known dealer of improvised arms and fake notes and we had been looking for him for quite sometime. We had an intelligence input that the man would be in the city to trade arms and fake notes and subsequently arrested him,” said a senior officer at Lalbazar.
Cops found six semi furnished improvised 7mm fire arms and counterfeit Indian currency notes amounting to Rs 14,000 of denomination Rs 2,000 from his possession.
Last month, STF had arrested three persons from Strand Road near Customs House with fake notes of face value Rs 1 lakh and 22 country-made semi furnished
improvised firearms
. All three men were residents of Munger in Bihar.
In Tuesday’s arrest, Kajmi was booked under IPC Section 489C (Possession of forged or counterfeit currency) and the Arms Act.