New Delhi: The Special Cell of Delhi Police has arrested a person involved in the business of fake coins. Fake coins worth about nine and a half lakh rupees have been recovered from it, which are 10-10 coins. The accused has been identified as Jignesh Gala.
Special Cell’s DCP Ankit Pratap Singh said that in April last year, Naresh Kumar, the mastermind of a syndicate supplying fake coins across the country, was arrested. On the basis of this inquiry, four of his associates were also arrested after raiding a factory godown in Dadri, Haryana. Fake coins worth about ten and a half lakh rupees were recovered from their possession. Along with this, the machine and raw material used to make them were also recovered.
Who is the accused Jignesh Gala?
During the investigation of the case, the name of Jignesh Gala, a resident of Mumbai, came to the fore. A police team caught Jignesh from Malad (East) on February 1 during a raid in Mumbai. Fake coins worth Rs 9 lakh 46 thousand were recovered from the eco van parked in the parking lot of his house.
What did the police say?
Police claim that the accused Jignesh Gala has revealed during interrogation that he has been involved in the business of supplying fake Indian coins for the last seven-eight years. Naresh Kumar used to give him fake coins to be supplied from Jaipur to Mumbai. Used to give him 8 to 10 lakh rupees every time. In the last two years itself, he had supplied fake coins worth Rs 15 to 16 lakh in the open market. The accused has studied only up to class X.
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