Faridabad: Haryana crime branch team in Faridabad has arrested six members of a gang making Rs 500 fake currency notes. ACP Aman Yadav said that the mastermind youth of this gang identified as Rajesh alias Bablu, a printing press designer and a resident of Punjab. He printed millions with just one idea, stunned the police. He was running a gang of six members arrested by police in Faridabad. During the raid police recovered fake currency notes and equipment of value worth Rs 7.94 lakh. Information reveals that be it a liquor shop or a petrol pump,all six youths used to give only new 500 rupee notes everywhere. The police got the information from an informer that fake currency notes of value Rs 500 are being prepared.
On the basis of clues, when the police investigated, the Crime Branch Badkhal team was surprised that fake currency notes were being prepared and the team arrested six people including the mastermind of the gang with the recovery of fake 7,94,000 notes of 500 rupees. Information also revealed that the mastermind accused a resident of Punjab was also making fake notes in Punjab itself and his henchmen were running it in Faridabad. Currently, the Faridabad Crime Branch team has seized the laptop, printer and die used in making fake notes from the accused. The main accused of the gang has been remanded to police custody and started interrogating him.
ACP Crime Aman Yadav while talking to media persons said that Badkhal Crime Branch had received information from secret sources that a gang is trying to circulate fake notes in Faridabad and surrounding area. Based on this information, the Crime Branch team has arrested two members of the gang who were circulating fake notes. The accused were identified as Yogesh and Vishnu, from whom fake notes of five hundred rupees each worth Rs 1,94,000 were recovered. An FIR was registered in Sadar Police Station Ballabgarh on April 1, 2025. During remand, they named Shubham, Pragat and Saurav, all residents of Punjab,who had provided them with fake notes.
Acting on this, the team of Crime Branch Budkal arrested the three accused from Punjab. During interrogation, they revealed the name of Rajesh alias Bablu, a resident of Punjab the masterminds of making fake currency notes, who provided them with fake notes to circulate in the market and they gave those notes to Yogesh and Vishnu, residents of Faridabad, who were circulating these notes at liquor shops, petrol pumps, restaurants and small shops in the area. Information reveals, all the accused have been arrested and laptop and printer for making notes have been recovered from the possession of the mastermind Rajesh alias Bablu who used to work as a printing press designer. He got the idea of making fake notes from U-tube and started making these fake notes. During the raid, the police recovered material used in making notes along with the fake notes of five hundred rupees of value worth 7 lakh 94 thousand rupees from the accused. Now Rajesh alias Bablu.
