New Delhi [India], September 1 (ANI): The NIA Special Court, Bengaluru, has sentenced one accused to 6 years of simple imprisonment (SI) in a fake currency seizure case of 2018, the NIA said in a statement.

The NIA said that the accused, Sariful Islam @ Sarifulla @ Sharifuddin, a native of West Bengal, has also been fined Rs. 5,000 in the case RC-12/2018/NIA/DLI (Chikodi FICN Case). He is the seventh accused to be convicted in the case.

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NIA investigations in the case had revealed that the accused had conspired with 6 others in the trafficking of 41 Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICNS), with a face value of Rs. 82,000, from the Bangladesh border to different parts of India. Sariful Islam had fraudulently obtained a SIM card to communicate with his co-accused for the procurement of the fake notes from West Bengal and its circulation across the country.

Investigations further revealed a trail of several such transactions on the part of the accused, who had earlier delivered FICN of Rs. 10.30 lakh to the main convict, Dalim Mia, in West Bengal. The conspiracy was aimed at destabilising India's monetary situation and economic security.

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NIA is continuing with its investigation against two Bangladeshi nationals who had supplied FICN to the accused in the instant case, in which a total of three chargesheets had been filed so far by the agency.

Earlier, ass part of a large-scale crackdown on CPI (Maoist), the NIA on Friday conducted search operations at seven locations in two districts of Bihar and seized a host of incriminating digital devices and documents along with live ammunition.

The searches were conducted at five locations in Kaimur district and two in Rohtas district in Bihar in connection with the arrest of two key CPI (Maoist) leaders, Vijay Kumar Arya and Umesh Chaudhary, who were apprehended by the NIA from Rohtas district back in April 2022. Levy receipts, Naxal pamphlets of the banned terror outfit, and digital devices were seized from them during that time. (ANI)

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