The Special Operations Group (SOG) of Rajasthan Police on Wednesday arrested two persons and recovered fake currency notes worth Rs 5,80,000 from their possession.
The SOG also seized a factory which was engaged in printing fake Indian currency notes (FICN) that was being run from a villa.
According to SOG officials, "The action was taken on Wednesday morning at Goner Padampura near Jaipur. Based on inputs received by the SOG, the location of the accused persons was raided. Along with fake notes worth Rs 5,80,000, many electronic equipment, including fake note printing machines, colour printers and scanners were found there. The SOG team has seized them all. The team has also arrested two accused in this case who have been identified as Brijesh Maurya and Pratham Sharma.
Initial interrogation has revealed that Maurya, a resident of Madhya Pradesh, was the mastermind of the gang, while Pratham Sharma is a resident of Jaipur.
He is expected to join the BJP sometime this week, days after criticising the party over violence in Delhi, and is likely to be rewarded with a Rajya Sabha seat.
A local court in Delhi sent a man, who allegedly pointed a gun at a policeman during last month’s riots in the national capital’s north-east district, to 14-day judicial custody.
Scindia, 49, appeared set to join the BJP, a party which had his late grandmother Vijaya Raje Scindia as one of the leading lights amid speculation he will get a Rajya Sabha ticket and be made a union minister.
A 16-year-old girl allegedly committed suicide in Chharanagar locality of Gujarat’s Ahmedabad after her boyfriend leaked their intimate video, police said on Tuesday.
The death warrant was issued a day after President Ram Nath Kovind rejected the mercy petition of Pawan Gupta, the last of the four death row convicts.
