Man held with counterfeit notes
Saturday, 20 December 2014
A young man was arrested and 297 fake currency notes amounting to Tk 2,97,000 were recovered from him in Daudkandi Upazila in Comilla district on Friday night. The arrested is Rafiqul Islam, 30, son of Abdullah, a resident of Deuliapara village in Chitalmari Upazila of Bagerhat district. Jobaidul Alam, officer-in-charge of Daudkandi highway police camp, said a police patrol team intercepted a Dhaka-bound bus of ‘Unique Paribahan’ coming from Chittagong on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway the and arrested the bus passenger Rafiqul at about 8:00pm. Later, they recovered 297 forged notes of Tk 1,000 denomination each after searching his body, according to a news agency.