New Delhi
A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Patna has handed down a rigorous imprisonment of five years to a key accused in a fake currency case in East Champaran, Bihar. The accused, Raisuddin, has been found guilty of the offence under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. In addition to the five-year imprisonment, the court has also imposed a fine of Rs 5000 on Raisuddin. He was found to have committed the offence under section 489B read with sections 120B of the IPC, section 16 of the UA(P) Act, section 18 of the UA(P) Act, and section 20 of the UA(P) Act. Raisuddin is the fifth person to be convicted and sentenced in connection with this case. The case was initially registered by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Patna, in September 2015. The DRI had seized a substantial amount of high-quality Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICNs) with a face value of Rs 5,94,000 from another accused named Afroz Ansari. Ansari was apprehended while carrying the FICNs to Raxaul near the Indo-Nepal border for further distribution in Nepal. The NIA took over the case in December 2015 and proceeded to arrest and charge eight individuals over the course of eight years. Four of the accused, Afroz Ansari, Sunny Kumar alias Sunny Shaw, Ashraful Alam alias Ishraful Alam, and Alomgir Seikh alias Raju, were previously convicted by the court on October 11, 2018. They were sentenced to life imprisonment and fined Rs 30,000 each. The trial against the remaining three accused is still ongoing.
