The police has arrested men who
was coming from Dubai with fake notes worth Rs.24 lakhs. The features of fake note matches with real note. 7
out of 9 features were matching. Human eyes cannot detect that features which
was not there in fake notes.
The fake notes were printed in Pakistan
and it was coming in India via Dubai. It is expected that before busting this
consignment of fake notes many other consignment of fake notes were already
injected in Mumbai.
All the Cash Counting Machines of PARAS comes with features of UV, MG, IR,
Watermark Mark and color sensor which can detect all 9 features of real note if
any one of the feature is missing from the note the machine will stop and give
you error message on display.
A man who arrived on a flight
from Dubai on Sunday morning was arrested for carrying fake Rs 2,000 notes with
a face value of almost Rs 24 lakh. The notes were of high quality,
incorporating seven of nine security features.
The accused told police they
were printed in Pakistan and sent to Dubai, with India intended as the final
destination. The denomination, when issued in 2016, was touted as highly
secure, but RBI said in October that no Rs 2,000 note was printed in 2019 as
NIA had found high-quality fakes.
The passenger, Javed Shaikh
(36), a Kalwa resident, had been to Dubai and Bangkok in the past and may have
brought in many such consignments. Police are questioning him about who the
present consignment was meant for. “An average person will not be able to
identify the fake notes. They look genuine. Shaikh walked away at the airport’s
security check. He was caught at the bus stop outside the international
terminal,” said joint commissioner of police (crime) Santosh Rastogi, who did
not rule out a terror link.
He said Shaikh could be caught
because of a CIA tipoff. “The counterfeit currency was stuffed in one of his
bags. It took us over an hour to locate it,” Rastogi said.
‘Notes scattered inside
cushion’
We identified him because of
his white jeans. It was around 9.30am. He was waiting for a BEST bus... The notes
were scattered inside a cushion, which was stuffed into a gap between the bag’s
wall and a cloth liner,” he said.
The format of the notes’
arrangement was the reason why they couldn’t be detected by baggage scanners.
“A scanner identifies notes if they are kept in bundles. It’s the edges of the
bundles that get detected. As opposed to this, Shaikh was carrying the notes in
a scattered format, making machine detection difficult,” Rastogi said.
On the quality of the notes, a
crime branch officer said that the two security features that weren’t copied
properly were ‘optically variable ink’ (ink that changes colour with changing
angles) and ‘see-through register’ (hidden features that are seen only if a
note is held against light).
The team that busted Shaikh was
the crime branch’s unit 8. Led by DCP Akbar Pathan, it included ACP Sangeeta
Patil, and senior inspector Ajay Joshi.
Shaikh has been booked under
IPC sections for common intention, criminal conspiracy, and counterfeiting.
During interrogation, he said he went to Dubai just five days ago, and for the
first time. “But we don’t believe this,” said Rastogi.
