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
