Agartala, December 09: A well established fake currency racket came to light with the arrest of a suspected kingpin from Indo-Bangla bordering Malaya village of Kamalpur subdivision of Dhalai district in Tripura based on the information revealed in interrogation of one Sahidur Alam of Manipur detained earlier by the police.

Jaud Ali sneaked in Kamalpur to see his newly born son after hiding for sometime in Bangladesh and got arrested by the Tripura police today.

The racket spreads over Indian states of Meghalaya, Manipur, Tripura and Bangladesh while the neighbouring country holds manufacturing and controlling machineries, according to the reports from the police.

On being interrogated by the police, Sagir Ahmed disclosed the whole affairs.

Sagir Ahmed was arrested with Indian fake currency notes worth about Rs.1 lakh denomination from Guwahati bound bus at Panisagar of North Tripura on NH44 in the month of October.

Sources said, detained Sagir Ahmed, a resident of Manipur disclosed the name of Sahidur Alam as his immediate boss of the racket and guided the police to nab him from Manipur last week.

The smuggler then disclosed his base in Tripura from where they used to procure fake currency notes after being smuggled out from Bangladesh.

It has been learnt, Sahidur was born and brought up in Manipur but married to a girl from Kamalpur in Tripura.

He had been here for a long time now and engaged in different odd jobs, police source said.

Police claimed that based on the interrogation of the accused Sahidur Alam it was revealed that Jaud Ali had been importing Indian fake currency notes from Bangladesh for last the 3/4 years.

Sahidur Alam lived at Kamalpur for 3 years after passing his matriculation from Lilong, Manipur in 1989 and he was working in various jewellery shops at Kamalpur and also did other works.

Subsequently he married a girl there and went back to his native State.

But he again returned to Kamalpur in search of employment.

And there he got involved in the illegal transaction of fake currency notes of which he had some information when he was working in jewellery shops before his marriage.

He further disclosed that Sagir Ahmed who was arrested by Panisagar Police on October 9 this year was one of his associates.

According to the police, besides huge amount of fake currency notes, a mobile phone was also recovered from his possession then.

This mobile phone connection was taken from Imphal in the name of one lady who is staying in Mumbai since her childhood.

On three other occasions, they had taken fake currency notes from Jaud Ali and disposed the same in Manipur and on one occasion to Shillong too.

One of their associates was arrested by Meghalaya Police in Shillong few months back with false notes and on another occasion, one more close associate was arrested by Manipur Police with huge amount of fake currency.

According to the police, on all the transactions, accused Juad Ali brought the fake currency from Moulavi Bazar in Bangladesh and handed over to his associates at various places of Kamalpur sub-division.

After this revelation, Police CID officers of Tripura put scanner on Juad Ali.

An information reached recently to CID said that Ali came back to his village from Bangladesh as his wife gave birth to a child on December 5.Officers laid trap, in which Juad fell in.

Some more related facts are likely to come to light from the accused persons about the racket.

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