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PUDUCHERRY: Does the arrest of a Jharkhand resident in Puducherry have any connection with anti-national activities? If the reports appearing in the media are anything to go by, then the seizure from Puducherry also points to that.The media had reported the arrest of Morjahan Sheikh in West Bengal’s Malda district, two weeks ago, by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The national media had also reported that the four-member NIA team from Hyderabad, led by NIA official Srinivas Rao, raided the house of Sheikh and seized fake notes with a face value of `9,600.Incidentally, the Jharkhand resident Mohammed Ismail Sheik (30) arrested by Puducherry police on Wednesday, confessed to his interrogators that he along with five others received the counterfeit currency from a source in Malda district of West Bengal.NIA believes that Morjahan Sheikh could be one of the members of the gangs linked with fake currency racket. Bablu Sheikh, a resident of Jharkhand, working as a fake note agent in the gang led by Morjahan Sheikh, escaped during NIA team’s raids at his place in Pakur (Jharkhand).“We have information that the fake currencies are being used in anti-national activities,” Rao had reportedly told the media persons.Rao had also said the NIA was following Morjahan Sheikh after the registration of an FIR in October last year that he was allegedly getting fake notes from Pakistan and Bangladesh for circulation in states like West Bengal, Jharkhand, AP, Odisha, TN and Mumbai and New Delhi.
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