Overview
- Police in Madhya Pradesh recovered suspected counterfeit currency valued at more than Rs 19 lakh from an imam’s room at a Paithiya madrasa after a tipoff from Maharashtra.
- The Malegaon arrests of Zubair (Zuber) Ansari and associate Nazim Ansari with fake notes worth about Rs 10 lakh triggered the follow-up search in Khandwa.
- Khandwa police have registered a case under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and are arranging remand of the accused for interrogation.
- Most of the seized notes were in the Rs 500 denomination with some Rs 200 bundles, and counting and verification of the haul are ongoing.
- Combined seizures in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh total nearly Rs 29 lakh, and police are probing whether a wider inter-state distribution network was involved while the local mosque committee has distanced itself from the accused.