Bengaluru court sentences West Bengal man to 6 years of imprisonment in a fake currency case

A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Bengaluru has sentenced a man to six years of imprisonment in a 2018 fake currency case. Sariful Islam, a native of West Bengal, was convicted and fined Rs 5,000 in the case. He is the seventh accused to be convicted in the case.

NIA investigations revealed that he had conspired with six others to traffic 41 fake Indian currency notes, with a face value of Rs 82,000, from the Bangladesh border to different parts of India. Islam fraudulently obtained a SIM card to communicate with his co-accused for the procurement of the fake notes from West Bengal and their circulation across the country, as per the NIA.

Investigations uncovered a series of similar transactions involving the accused, who had previously supplied counterfeit notes worth Rs 10.30 lakh to the primary convict, Dalim Mia, in West Bengal. According to the NIA, the scheme was designed to destabilise India’s financial and economic security.

In this case, the NIA continues its investigation of two Bangladeshi nationals who supplied the currency notes to the convicts. So far, the agency has filed three chargesheets.