Mumbai/New Delhi, December 24: Directorate of Revenue Intelligence has arrested three person including a Pakistani woman for smuggling in high quality fake Indian currency notes worth Rs 18 lakh from Karachi via Dubai.
The operation, which led to the seizure spanned over several days and was undertaken in Mumbai, where the consignment of fake notes had arrived from Karachi.
Official sources said they had inputs that two Delhi based persons would be reaching Mumbai to receive a huge consignment of FICN from a particular module active in and around Mumbai. A surveillance was maintained on all trains reaching Mumbai from North India.
On December 22 late night, the DRI sleuths spotted a couple at Andheri station resembling the persons as per the intelligence input.
Following searches of their belongings, the Directorate discovered FICN, all in Rs 500 denomination cleverly concealed underneath their trolley bags.
–Agencies