Factory of fake coins busted

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Tribune News Service

New Delhi, September 20
With the arrest of two persons, the New Delhi district police claims to have busted a .factory, which was churning out counterfeit coins of Rs 5 denomination. The police also claimed to have recovered a hydraulic pressure machine, die, tools, an electronic motor, 975 counterfeit coins of Rs 5 denomination, 27 kg of raw material used to manufacture the coins and one kg of defective and semi-finished coins from the hideout.

The accused, Bhagwan Das Soni (43) and his courier, Trilochan Singh, were apprehended by the police on September 20. The police, on a tip-off that some persons were involved in selling fake coins of Rs 5 denomination to bus conductors at Shivaji Stadium, apprehended two persons, Balkishan (40), a resident of main Sagar Pur, and Kumar Singh (25), a resident of Uttam Nagar, and seized 7,000 counterfeit coins from them.

The accused told the police that they used to procure the coins from a Sikh gentleman and were not aware about his whereabouts. The police again received information about the supply of fake coins and, on September 19, apprehended Trilochan near Regal Building, where he had come to make a delivery. Two thousand counterfeit coins, contained in plastic bags, were recovered from him.

Trilochan told the police that when he suffered huge losses in his garment business, he had approached Bhagwan Das for assistance. Bhagwan engaged him for selling the coins.

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