NIA captured 2 people in Mumbai's Andheri with fake notes

Mumbai, Oct 13 Two people were Saturday caught by the National Investigation Agency from rural Andheri here with fake money notes of Rs 2000 category with a face estimation of Rs 96,000, an authority said.

The authority recognized the two people as Saddam Salim Hawaldar and Fahad Naushad Chandiwala, inhabitants of Sakinaka and Santacruz individually.

Following up on a tip off that the pair would come to Marol region in Andheri to do exchanges with the fake Indian currency notes (FICN), the NIA team captured them and recovered 48 such notes from them.

A case under relevant sections of the IPC for possessing fake notes and instruments and materials for fashioning and falsifying notes has been enlisted with the MIDC police station, the authority said.

Further probe to unwind details of the FICN network operated by Hawaldar and Chandiwala was underway, he added.