Mumbai, Dec 05: The Mumbai police have asked the director general of police to direct the crime investigation department (state CID) to probe the alleged fake currency and stamps case detected by Versova police at Nasik recently, police sources said. The Versova police, who were probing a Rs 1541-worth fake franking case, stumbled upon a Rs 72 lakh fake adhesive stamps dump at the Nasik house of the suspect, Prasoon Agrawal.
Even as police was investigating the Nasik-dump, a television channel claimed to have busted another dump allegedly belonging to Agrawal very close to the earlier dump, which allegedly had fake stamps, currency notes worth lakhs of rupees.
The Versova police raided two places in Panvel, where Agrawal's two more houses were located and seized a similar dump that night, sources said.
With Mumbai police and the Nasik police investigating the same case, senior officials of Mumbai police have requested that both cases be transferred to CID.
"We have requested the DGP to hand over investigations to the CID", Ahmed Javed, Joint Commissioner (Law & Order), Mumba Police told reporters.
Bureau Report