Indore police have flown to Malegaon, Maharashtra, to question suspects linked to a smuggling ring that stole counterfeit Indian currency.
Inspector General Anurag Kumar said the team is hunting connections between the fake notes seized in Khandwa’s Madarsa and other people who may have helped move the money. The officers are also checking the suspects’ bank records to trace the cash trail and see if the fraud crossed borders.
Police found nearly ₹19.78 lakh of fake notes in a Khandwa madrasa after raiding the site on intelligence. Those notes were part of a larger racket that led to the arrest of Imam Zuber Ansari, a mosque preacher caught with ₹10 lakh in counterfeit money in Malegaon. Ansari—an original resident of Haripura in Burhanpur—had stayed at the same madrasa for months.
“The investigation is still in its early phase,” Kumar said. “Once we interrogate the suspects, more details will emerge and the probe will move forward.”
Indore police are also looking at whether a foreign network helps run the scheme, and they urge banks and the public to report any suspicious notes. The cross‑state raid highlights how smugglers use local contacts and transit routes to circulate forged bank notes across India.
Source: ianslive
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