With the arrest of two people, the Ludhiana Rural Police claim to have busted a gang involved in manufacturing and circulating fake currency.

Harinder Singh Chahal, SSP, Ludhiana Rural, informed that the police party headed by SI Jagjit Singh, CIA staff, Jagraon, recovered fake currency worth Rs 64,000 from these people.

Those arrested include Harjit Singh, a resident of Pandori Takhatgath village in Taran Taran district, and Bhagwan Das a resident of Basti Jodhewal in Ludhiana.

Chahal said, “Harjit Singh used to come and live with Bhagwan Das and both are involved in this crime. These people used to manufacture and then sell the fake currency notes. We have recovered fake notes of Rs 100 denominations.”

“We are trying to establish as to where this currency was headed for and from where did these two people procured the raw material for printing these notes. Very soon, we will be able to unravel the entire gang,” added Chahal. An FIR, meanwhile, has been registered against the two accused.

In another breakthrough, a team of Ludhiana Rural Police CIA staff, headed by incharge Tehal Singh nabbed four people, Dinesh Chaudhry, Qyammatdin, Gurmeet Singh and Jatinder Kumar, all residents of Ludhiana, and recovered four stolen motorcycles and a .12 bore revolver from them.

Tehal Singh informed, “We had set up a naka at the canal and when these people came up there, we stopped them and asked them to show the papers of the vehicles which they failed to produce. On questioning them, we came to know about the stolen bikes and the revolver.” An FIR has been registered against the four accused.