Muzaffarnagar, Oct 15: The Uttar Pradesh police today arrested two persons, suspected of having links with the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan, on charges of circulating fake currency notes in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir besides the Capital, police said.They were arrested and Rs 1.5 lakh, including fake currency notes of Rs 500 denomination amounting to Rs 50,000 supplied from Pakistan, recovered from them following a raid on their hideout in Kairana town of Muzaffarnagar district, senior superintendent of police Ashutosh Pandey told PTI.
Thirty other members of the inter-state gang, who are active in Delhi, western UP and Haryana, are still at large, Pandey said.
Meanwhile, police said in Saharanpur during interrogation those arrested revealed that the gang was supplying fake currency notes to Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur, Dehradun, Katra, Panipat, Jammu and Delhi.
They even purchased clothes worth Rs 25,000 from Panipat with the fake notes, and police team have been sentto Haryana and Delhi in search of other members of the gang.
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