A 22-year-old man named Amir Khan was arrested at Charbagh Railway Station in Lucknow on Sunday for possessing counterfeit currency notes worth Rs. 197,000. Amir Khan, a resident of Bareilly, was apprehended near platform number 8, while attempting to smuggle the counterfeit notes from trains. He confessed to the crime, stating...
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that his friend's uncle, Rajan Khan, had lured him with money to trade in counterfeit notes from West Bengal. On September 27th, Rajan Khan provided Amir with a bag containing 394 counterfeit Rs. 500 notes and booked him a ticket from Malda Town to Lucknow on the train. Amir was supposed to deliver the package to another person, Jumma Khan, in Bareilly. Amir Khan was presented in the railway court and sent to judicial custody.