In Indore, Palasia police has exposed a gang that used to hand over fake notes of Rs 500 each, used by children for playing, to people by passing them off as real. The police is also shocked to see the cunning method used by the accused for this. The social media monitoring team of the police found these accused and then laid a trap and caught two accused of the gang. The police have also recovered 80 bundles of fake notes worth Rs 40 lakh and real notes of Rs 40,000 of Rs 500 each on each bundle from the accused.

Giving information about the case, Additional DCP of the police department Ram Snehi Mishra said that the cyber monitoring desk of Palasia police station was constantly monitoring the anti-national activities on social media platforms Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Meanwhile, the team came to know about an advertisement in which an offer was being made to buy and sell fake notes. After this, the police contacted the accused through WhatsApp through the mobile number given in the advertisement.

The police talked to them posing as a customer, after which the person on the other end sent a message asking them to bring fake notes and told them about giving 4 lakh rupees in exchange for 1 lakh. When the accused reached the mentioned place with fake notes, the police surrounded them and caught two of the accused.

Giving information about the accused, the Additional DCP said that one of the arrested accused is Prathamesh Yevatkar, who is a resident of Jalgaon in Maharashtra, while the other accused is Deepak Kaushal. Prathamesh came in contact with Deepak through another person from Maharashtra and contacted someone with the intention of circulating fake notes. Our team caught both of them red-handed there.

Police was also surprised to know the method of disposing of fake notes

The police officer said that fake notes worth about 40 lakh rupees have been recovered from the accused. The notes on top of the 80 bundles recovered from them are real, which is about 8 thousand rupees, while the rest of the notes in the bundle are fake. According to the police, these are the same notes that are found at cutlery shops and which children use to play in children's banks.

The officer further said, 'Their technique of disposing of notes is very dangerous. These people have made bundles like the ones made in banks. To fool people and deceive them that all the notes in the bundle are real, these people make a cut with a blade, where the cut is made, a note remains outside, and these people pull that out and tell that see, I have taken out one note from the middle of this entire bundle of 10 lakhs, which is real. So that the person can be sure that all the notes in the bundle are real.'

When they got suspicious, the accused checked three times, then they believed.

The police said that our people had contacted the accused after a lot of efforts. The accused tried three times to confirm that they were not getting trapped in a trap. But the experts of our team convinced them and caught them by trapping them in their own trap. He further said, 'These people used to talk about giving 4 lakh rupees worth of notes in exchange for 1 lakh rupees worth of real notes. They used to deceive the person by saying that these are second grade notes, not fake. These are the notes that get damaged a little at the place where notes are printed, but they are not fake. Whereas they used to tell someone else that we have a lot of notes, we have to spend them. That is why we are giving them.'

The police told that the accused used to sell fake notes to people by telling them that they are real. The most cunning technique adopted by them was that when they used to cut a bundle of 10 lakh notes with a blade and take out one note that was genuine, anyone would believe it. At present, the police is investigating further. During interrogation, the accused have said that they have spent 25-50 thousand rupees, which the police are not convinced with. Apart from this, it seems that they have committed other crimes as well. The police is trying to find out about this as well.