Kana, who is said to be based in Pakistan since ages, uses his Kairana roots to recruit new people for delivering consignment of Fake Indian Currency (FICN), explosives, arms and ammunitions. Interrogation of Zeeshan Khan and Ash Mohammad arrested by Special cell has revealed how this module functioned with the active assistance of Pakistan-based agents.
Zeeshan’s father Hasan, a resident of Dabri in South West Delhi, had left recently for Faisalabad in Pakistan to meet Kana for facilitating the delivery of the consignment that was intercepted by the Special Cell team.
Special Commissioner of Police Special Cell, PN Aggarwal, said there was information about the movement of Kana gang. Kana is a notorious peddler of FICNs and gun running racket and is wanted by Delhi Police, CBI and other state police forces in several cases. He has been evading the law and is safely ensconced in Pakistan.
The intelligence input said that Kana was pumping in huge consignments of FICNs in India by exploiting various routes. An operation to nab Kana’s conduits was launched in Bihar, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and other places. Ultimately, Zeeshan and Ash Mohammad were nabbed with two tempo loads of 33 cloth bundles that contained FICNs worth Rs 2,24,50000. The quality of these fake currency notes is such that a common man may not detect it easily.
The wads of FICNs recovered by the Special Cell were printed in Quetta, Pakistan. Haji Anis, the former Chairman of Kairana Municipality, who is now based in Pakistan has been playing a major role in enticing people from Kairana with the help of Kana for the smuggling of FICNs and arms. Haji escaped to Pakistan after his name figured in a major gun running racket. Since then, he had proved elusive.
Investigations have found that this particular consignment was smuggled from the Ranbir Singh Pura sector in Jammu bordering Pakistan. It appears that the cloth bundles were then loaded in a train at Jammu station as a consignment of cloth. The same was received at the New Delhi railway station and then loaded in two tempos. An official involved in the investigations said that they are looking for the person who booked this consignment at Jammu Railway station. Raids are on to nab others who were involved in this particular case.
All the bundles were packed in clothes that were manufactured in various factories in Pakistan. There were stamps of Safari Textile Mills, Sargodha Spinning Mills, Kohinoor Suiting processed by HH fabrics, Usman Naik fabrics, Mehrana Cotton processed by HH fabrics. Aggarwal said all these cloth mills are situated at Faisalabad and Sargodha of Pakistan. The manner in which FICNs were packed and concealed indicated the involvement of professionals.
It has now emerged that Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan uses three routes to smuggle FICNs into India. It exploits sea routes to send illicit consignments to Dhaka and the same is then smuggled into India by using the porous Indo-Bangladesh border. The second route is the air route from Pakistan airports to Kathmandu.
The consignment is then brought in trucks to Moitihari and Katihar, the two districts of Bihar on the borders on Indo-Nepal border. The third route is the Ranbir Singh Pura sector route and Pakistan rangers play an important role in pushing smugglers under the cover of firing. It’s a documented fact that ISI uses FICN smugglers to pump in counterfeit Indian currency. The profit that accrues from this nefarious trade is then shared by ISI and the smugglers.
ISI takes a major share of this money to fund terrorist outfits based in Jammu and Kashmir and the Sleeper Cells that are active all over India.
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