Fake currency racket: NIA tracking 80 Bangladeshi women in Agra, Firozabad
The NIA has set up a camp in Agra and is keeping a strict vigil on 80 Bangladeshi women, who are suspected to be engaged in fake currency dealings. A team of West Bengal police is assisting the NIA team in Agra.
In Short
- NIA arrested a Bangladeshi woman in February.
- About 80 Bangladeshi women are suspected to be involved in fake currency racket in Agra.
- NIA is being assisted by a West Bengal police team.
After India Today broke the story in February this year about a Bangladeshi woman being arrested in Agra for dealing in fake currency, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) took up this case for probe.
At present, the NIA is tracking 80 such women in Agra and Firozabad. The identities of the suspects have not been revealed by the NIA.
It is suspected that as many as 15 of them, are living in Itmaduddaulah area of Agra posing as grocery vendors while their real business is of dealing in fake currency. All these women are on the NIA scanner and their activities are being monitored.
IN SYNC WITH WEST BENGAL POLICE
Following the arrest of Bangladeshi national Apan Sheikh in Kolkata, the NIA hopes to get more details about these women, who are suspected to be the last link between the open market and the fake currency dealers. A team of Kolkata police officers and constables is closely working with the NIA, which has set up camp in Agra.
Deputy Superintendent of Police B S Tyagi told India Today that the local police have not been informed about the NIA probe. The local police have only been deployed for the security of the entire operation and the camp.
ATS ALSO ROPED IN
The NIA has also warned the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) about these women. An ATS team is expected to arrive soon in Agra to investigate the links of these women with any terror module.
Meanwhile, National All Party Muslim Action Committee chief Haji Jamiluddin criticised NIA action against these women saying that they were being harassed because of their religion. Jamiluddin claimed that these women are poor and legally married to Indian nationals.
They have children and are subsisting by selling vegetables, Jamiluddin said. He further said that these women were innocent and wrongly accused.
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