Yamunanagar : Police team of Yamunanagar CIA-1 staff arrested six persons of a gang allegedly printing and supplying fake Rs 200 and Rs 500 currency notes. The accused were identified as Arun, alias Lusi, and Shahrukh, both residents of Yamunanagar, Prabhjot a resident of village Gola in Ambala district, Ashok Kumar resident of Raipur Rani in Panchkula district, Om Singh resident of Chandigarh and Rahul resident of Patiala. They were arrested after raids at Yamunanagar and Panchkula districts on Saturday. The police seized fake currency notes of value worth Rs 13.66 lakh, a printer, a laptop and plain papers during the raids at their office in Peer Muchalla in Zirakpur.

CIA-1 in-charge Yadvender Singh said that based on inputs, they arrested Arun who was earlier booked in a similar case and was out on bail along with Shahrukh who was also released on bail in a case of drug smuggling. Police had recovered fake currency notes of value Rs 91,200 in fake currency notes from them, and based on their information conducted raids near Panchkula where the notes were printed arresting the rest of the four accused with the remaining fake currency notes seized from their possession along with Laptop, Printer, paper and ink. During preliminary investigation the arrested accused said that Prabhjot had learnt manufacturing fake currency notes on U-tube. They had opened new office at Peer Muchalla in Zeerakpur on a week earlier and had already supplied 11.50 lakh fake currency notes. The CIA-1 in-charge said Ashok, Prabhjot and Om Singh were presented before court on Saturday and sent to a three-day police remand.