Search for 'missing man' leads police to fake-note racket in Guwahati

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: In their search for a person from Arunachal Pradesh, who apparently went missing from the Ganeshguri area yesterday, the Dispur police unearthed a fake-note currency racket in Guwahati today.

According to his two colleagues, the man from Arunachal Pradesh, Tahong Gao, went missing after boarding a cab from Ganeshguri yesterday. The other two informed Dispur police that their colleague Gao went missing after boarding the cab. The two colleagues told the police that they could not contact Gao on his mobile phone as that was silent. Dispur police swung into action and traced him at a hotel in the Pan Bazar area at around 2 am on Saturday. Gao told the police that the cab driver had taken him to an unknown location and at last dropped him at Pan Bazar.

The police smelt a rat and carried out an operation. They continued the search operation and arrested Dilip Das, hailing from Thelamara in Tezpur, and Moinul Haque, hailing from Laluk in Lakhimpur. The police also seized several bundles of fake notes from the two arrested youths from the Bhetapara area today.

The police elicited from Gao that he had come to Guwahati with Rs 5 lakh to take fake notes with a face value of Rs 10 lakh. However, the fake-note racketeers looted his Rs 5 lakh without giving him any fake notes. Gao is the cousin of a political leader of Arunachal Pradesh. Operation is going to arrest more people involved in the fake-note racket.

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