Overview
- MP police recovered roughly ₹19–19.78 lakh in counterfeit notes from an imam’s room at a madrasa in Khandwa, a search triggered by the arrest of Zubair Ansari in Malegaon with about ₹10 lakh in fake currency.
- Indore’s IG said a team has gone to Malegaon to question the accused and trace bank transactions, adding investigators recovered fake notes but no printing machine from the Khandwa site.
- Delhi Police Crime Branch arrested three men — Vivek Kumar Maurya, Ravi Arora and Rakesh Arora — and seized ₹3.24 lakh in FICN along with unfinished sheets, printers and chemicals tied to a network spanning Delhi, Bareilly and Shahjahanpur.
- Bengaluru police, acting on an RBI complaint, arrested 10 suspects who altered serial numbers on withdrawn ₹2,000 notes for a ‘money rain’ ritual scam, seizing ₹18 lakh in notes and tampering equipment, with one woman still at large.
- MP police also arrested Gurinderjit Singh in Patiala, seizing ₹3.66 lakh and printing material linked to supplies across Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab and Madhya Pradesh, as multiple state teams map possible links between the cases.