Chandigarh, March 14 – Haryana Police has seized counterfeit currency amounting to Rs 1.11 lakh in Sirsa district and arrested a woman in this connection.
While stating this here today, a spokesperson of Haryana Police said that a team of Crime Investigation Agency on a tip off had seized 124 currency notes in denomination of 500, 200 notes in denomination of 200 and 90 notes in denomination of 100 from the accused woman identified as Sukhwinder Kaur.
Police had got credible information that arrested accused and her son, identified as Gagandeep, were trying to bring fake currency notes from Punjab to supply in the town. Acting on the tip-off, police laid a trap and arrested the woman and seized the fake currency. However, her son managed to escape taking advantage of darkness. He would be arrested very soon.
Both have been booked under relevant sections of the IPC for possessing and using forged or counterfeit currency notes and further probe is underway.
