4 smugglers held in Bhojpur

MOTIHARI: The East Champaran police is searching for one Mohd Harun of Delhi in connection with the Rs98 lakh cheque case. East Champaran SP Umesh Kumar Sharma on Monday said the case may reveal a gang involved in issuing forged cheques and getting them encashed by dodging the bank officials.
Earlier, the police suspected it to be a case of terror funding after the cheque, issued from the Punjab National Bank at Baramullah in Jammu & Kashmir, was deposited by one Motilal Chaudhary of Turkauliya in the Uttar Gramin Bank at Motihari.When presented for clearance on August 5, the PNB officials detected it to be a forged one. The PNB manager had lodged a case with the Town police station in this connection.
Sharma said chequebooks of different banks, PAN cards and other forged papers were recovered from the possession of Motilal, Ashik Iqbal of Chiraiya and Mohd Akhlakh of Sitamarhi after their arrest. They were sent to jail on Monday. The other two accused — Mohd Islam, a teacher in government school at Chiraiya, and Mohd Harun of Delhi — were yet to be nabbed.
The SP said Motilal told the police that he had received the cheque from one Ashik Iqbal, who said he had received it from Mohd Islam and Mohd Akhlakh.
Akhlakh said Mohd Harun had given him the cheque.