NIA special court Mumbai convicts and sentences a FICN Racketeer in Bhivandi case
New Delhi, August 18
The NIA Special Court Mumbai convicted a racketeer in the Bhiwandi fake Indian currency notes case.
The accused Abdul Kadir from Malda in West Bengal was booked under sections120B, 489B and 489C of IPC and sentenced him to 7 years of Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) and fine of Rs. 1000/-.
The case was originally registered as FIR in October 2018 at Bhiwandi police station under section 489-B, 489-C, & 34 of IPC. The case pertains to recovery of Fake Indian Currency Notes of face value of approximately 4.5 Lakhs from the possession of accused namely Rehan Abbas Shaikh, Shafahad Mukhtar Ansari, (Anees Iklak Shaikh, Kishor Namdeo Fular and Rohit Nagendra Singh, all residents of Bandra (E), Mumbai.
The NIA had re-registered the case in December 2018 and taken up the investigation.
During investigation, involvement of four more persons namely Samir Mandal Kalicharan Mandal, Sabir Ali Jullur Rahaman, Abdul Kadir Jullur Rahaman and Mohammad Shadab Khan Abdul Rasheed was revealed and they were arrested in the present case. After investigation, the NIA had filed charge-sheet in January 2019 and subsequently supplementary charge-sheets later.
The NIA investigation has revealed that convicted accused Abdul Kadir along with his brother co-accused Sabir Ali, both residents of Malda had procured the FICN from absconding accused Karim Shaikh in Bangladesh. They had then given the FICN to co-accused Samir Mandal for further circulation.
The trial against the remaining charge- sheeted accused is underway.
