BSF recovers counterfeit currency in Punjab

Ferozepur (Punjab), Nov 7

Sleuths of the Border Security Force (BSF) recovered counterfeit currency notes with a nominal value of Rs.900,000 in Punjab's Ferozepur district, officials said Saturday.

The fake currency was recovered from the Pakori Joginder border checkpost in Mamdot sector of this district late Friday night, officials added.

BSF's Punjab Frontier, Deputy Inspector General, Jagir Singh, told IANS Saturday: "During the late night search operation, our officials recovered fake currency notes in 17 packets."

"While Rs.800,000 were in the denomination of Rs.500 notes in 16 packets, the remaining were in the denomination of Rs.1,000 currency notes."

"Some miscreants must have been trying to smuggle this amount across the border but might have run away, leaving the packets, on seeing the BSF men," Singh said.

BSF is India's paramilitary force that guards the 553 km fenced border between India and Pakistan in Punjab.

In the past few months, BSF had recovered fake currency notes with the nominal value of Rs.2.2 million (Rs.22 lakh) in the Punjab sector.

Last updated on Nov 7^th, 2009 at 21:12 pm IST--IANS

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