Ludhiana: Khanna police have arrested a Romanian man for alleged possession of 1,000 Euros in counterfeit foreign money.
The man, known as Simion, was once arrested after he was once stuck trying to change the counterfeits for Indian foreign money at a forex-exchange store in Samrala.
Khanna senior superintendent of police (SSP) Navjot Singh Mahal said they will now query the circle of relatives in Samrala in whose area the accused was once residing as a tenant.
He added that they might produce the accused in court docket on Monday and search his custody to establish the supply of the counterfeit foreign money.
Simion (20) has been booked underneath sections 420 (dishonest) and 489-C (possession of forged or counterfeit foreign money notes) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Khanna town police station.
The SSP said they had informed the Romanian Embassy in New Delhi about. He added that the accused had long gone to the store dressed as a girl. “As quickly as the money exchanger gave the accused Rs 79,000 in change for the 1,000 Euros after which started counting the European foreign money, the accused tried to stroll out,” the SSP said.
The money exchanger got suspicious of the accused and asked him to forestall. On checking the foreign money, he discovered that they had been counterfeits.
The SSP said the accused had informed the police that he got the Euros from his nation and did not know that they had been counterfeit. “The accused has studied up to high school and is unemployed,” said the SSP.
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Khanna SSP Navjot Singh Mahal said the accused had come to trip in India. “A Mauritius national had also been staying in the similar area the place the accused was once residing, but the Romanian national didn not know a lot about him,” he said.
The man, known as Simion, was once arrested after he was once stuck trying to change the counterfeits for Indian foreign money at a forex-exchange store in Samrala.
Khanna senior superintendent of police (SSP) Navjot Singh Mahal said they will now query the circle of relatives in Samrala in whose area the accused was once residing as a tenant.
He added that they might produce the accused in court docket on Monday and search his custody to establish the supply of the counterfeit foreign money.
Simion (20) has been booked underneath sections 420 (dishonest) and 489-C (possession of forged or counterfeit foreign money notes) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Khanna town police station.
The SSP said they had informed the Romanian Embassy in New Delhi about. He added that the accused had long gone to the store dressed as a girl. “As quickly as the money exchanger gave the accused Rs 79,000 in change for the 1,000 Euros after which started counting the European foreign money, the accused tried to stroll out,” the SSP said.
The money exchanger got suspicious of the accused and asked him to forestall. On checking the foreign money, he discovered that they had been counterfeits.
The SSP said the accused had informed the police that he got the Euros from his nation and did not know that they had been counterfeit. “The accused has studied up to high school and is unemployed,” said the SSP.
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Khanna SSP Navjot Singh Mahal said the accused had come to trip in India. “A Mauritius national had also been staying in the similar area the place the accused was once residing, but the Romanian national didn not know a lot about him,” he said.
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