<![CDATA[A man from West Bengal’s Malda district was arrested on the charge of being a member of a gang involved in smuggling and circulating fake Indian currency notes (FICN) across India by The National Investigation (NIA), a source said. Probing multiple cases of FICN recovery from Bengal and Odisha, the NIA nabbed Rubel Mia from Malda on 7 August. The NIA secured Rubel Mia’s custody for five days from a city court on Monday. The sleuths were on the lookout for the 25-year-old in connection with a case involving the recovery of FICN with a face value of Rs 10 lakh from Odisha’s Dhenkanal in May 2015. The source said, during the course of investigation, it was found that Mia and his associates were involved in the smuggling of FICN from Bangladesh and transportation and circulation of the same to various parts of India. Mozammel Haque, a Bangladeshi, supplied fake currency notes to the gang which circulated them in the states of West Bengal, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and New Delhi, the source added.]]>
