Prayagraj: sleuths of the Special Task Force (Unit Prayagraj) on the up claim to have captured the racketing racket between countries involved in circulating the counterfeit currency from Kerala Capital Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday.
He was taken to Prayagraj on Thursday.
The defendant was identified as Deamak Mandal, a resident of Jayanpur (Malda) in West Bengal.
The police have also confiscated cellphones, aadhaar cards, and Rs 730 from their ownership.
Desired by police, MP, Delhi and other countries, Madral brought RS 1 Lakh cash prize announced by the police.
The police deputy supervisor (STF) Navendu Kumar told Ti that the STF team (Unit Prayagraj) arrested the excretion most wanted near Gandhi Park, Thiruvananthapuram when he planned to escape.
“The key to the operative and playback of the racket involved in pumping the fake currency in many countries the country runs a racket from the Indo-Bangladesh border.” DSP added that following the arrest of a man identified as Rupesh Kumar of Phulpur in Prayagraj on June 1 along with the fake currency worth Rs 1 Lakh, police learned that gang members got the delivery of the counterfeit currency from Kingpin Deepak based in Malda.
Deepak was used to take RS 50,000 original currencies for the counterfeit currency worth Rs 1 lakh from Rs 1.
On October 20, STF also arrested another extortion, which was identified as a RAM Sahu, a Kaurihar resident who had a cash prize of 50,000 Rs in his head in the Prayagraj district.
The police then learned that Sahu was in Mandal contact since 2014 when they were submitted.
In Naini Central Jail.
Stf officials claimed, “When UP STF tightened the meshes around the mandal and stormed his hiding at Malda in West Bengal, he continued to change his cellphone number and hideout.
Then, ESCA.
Ped to Kerala to avoid police action.” During the interrogation, Deepak claimed to have been involved In pumping fake currencies in many countries for the past 14 years and used to visit Bangladesh through the water route to carry consignments.
In 2013, the STF team had caught the mandal, along with one leg, and restored the counterfeit currency worth 3 lakh in the Prayagraj District Shivkuti area.
He was then submitted in Naini Central Jail.
In 2017 and 2018, Delhi police specifically captured the mandal along with the fake currency he entered Tihar Jail in Delhi.
However, after being redeemed, he again involved himself in the same trade and continued to smuggle the fake currency.