Three people, including two Pakistani nationals, have been arrested here in connection with a fake Indian currency racket. A special team of Nepal Police arrested the three men — Mohamad Minulla, Sohail Mohamad, both Pakistani nationals and Basir Miya, a resident of Bara district in southern Nepal —
from a hotel in New Road in the heart of the capital city Kathmandu.
Fake currency with a face value of 29 lakh and 50 rupees was seized from them. According to Nepali police the currency was being trafficked to India through land route.
Our correspondent reports that while the Nepal government has banned bringing of Indian currency of one thousand and five hundred rupees notes in bid to stop the fake notes being send across the open border to India. However most of the fake currencies that have been seized has been in the denominations of five hundred and one thousand. In one of the largest seizures made in December last year , fake currency worth one crore and twenty-two lakhs has been seized and three persons arrested along with a Philippine national who had come from Doha while a Vietnamese national had been caught in the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu in March this year while coming from Bangkok earlier this year with fake currency of one crore rupees .