Fake currency notes came via LoC trade route: Cops

The chargesheet also said that one of the accused from Jammu city had roped in a person who worked at the cargo division of the New Delhi Railway Station parcel office,to facilitate the entry of the consignment in the city without being detected.

The Railway employee was allegedly getting commission from the accused traders to send the consignment to different parties.

Police said the currency notes had been neatly packed in 33 bundles of ladies fabric suits,and had been sent from Pakistan through the LoC trade route. The LoC trade is conducted between businessmen from Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) and those from Jammu and Kashmir along two routes. One is between Salamabad in the Uri sector of J&K and Muzaffarabad (PoK),and the other is between Chakan-da-Bagh in the Poonch area of Jammu and Rawalakot in PoK. This consignment had been sent from the Poonch-Rawalakot route.

“These bundles were sent by a person identified as Mohammad Iqbal alias Kana,who is based in Pakistan,to destabilise the Indian economy and threaten the integrity and unity of India,” the chargesheet states.

After the train reached the New Delhi Railway Station,the bundles were loaded on tempos and were on the way to cloth units in Dabri area of Southwest Delhi,where they were intercepted. Police arrested two persons,identified as Zeeshan Khan,a resident of Dabri,and Ash Mohammad,a resident of Sambuddh Nagar in Uttar Pradesh.

Police said it was Zeeshan’s father Mohammad Hasan Khan,who is a childhood friend of Iqbal,who helped him bring the fake currency till his house in Dabri from where it was to be distributed in the market. On the basis of Zeeshan’s interrogation,police arrested three traders from Jammu and Kashmir — Yakoob Ali,Ghulam Ahmed alias Khwaja and Mohammad Rafiq from Poonch area. Police said they have obtained non-bailable warrants against Iqbal and Khan,who are said to be in Pakistan.