A youth from Jamnagar was caught with fake currency of Rs 77 thousand in Pune.

Mumbai – Pune Police has arrested a youth from Jamnagar, Gujarat who was trying to pass fake notes. The police recovered money from him. 142 of 500 and Rs. 61 fake notes of Rs 100 and a total of 77 thousand fake notes were seized.

According to the information received, in this case Gaurav Rampratap, resident of Jamnagar, has been identified as Savita. Police constable Lakhan Shete has lodged a complaint in this regard at Samarth police station.

Acting on the complaint, a team of Samarth police conducted a search operation in all the Dharamshalas of Pune on Friday night. In this, the police got information that the suspect lives near Ghantadaya Maruti Temple of Peth and he has fake notes.

Acting on the information, the police team reached there. At this time, Gaurav was trying to run away after seeing the police. However, before that he was caught by the police.

On further investigation he recovered Rs. 142 of 500 and Rs. 61 M out of 100 Total Rs. Fake notes of Rs 77,200 were found.

The police had arrested him for possessing fake notes and circulating these fake notes in the market and where did he get these fake notes from. The team conducted further investigation to find out how many more people are involved in this scam of fake notes.