Delhi Police Busts Inter‑State Fake Currency Racket
Seizure of a Navi Mumbai printing unit with hundreds of fake notes shows a coordinated supply chain that could reduce fake-note circulation
Overview
- A Bhalswa Dairy shopkeeper who alerted a beat officer on June 29 first flagged poor-quality Rs 100 notes and set off the police probe.
- Delhi Police have arrested three people in mid-July, identifying 62-year-old Natraj Mohan Kanchan as the alleged kingpin and Vinod Munnilal Jaiswar as the technical designer of counterfeit templates.
- Officers recovered roughly 299 counterfeit notes, including mainly Rs 100 notes and some Rs 500 samples, along with a laptop, printer, lamination machine, watermark paper and paper rolls.
- Investigators say the operation printed notes in Navi Mumbai and moved them to Delhi for circulation, and Delhi Police worked with Mumbai Police to locate the printing unit and make arrests.
- The case is under forensic and criminal investigation, authorities said, and the bust highlights how frontline vigilance and inter‑agency cooperation can disrupt organized counterfeiting networks.