Bashistha Police Arrested Two African Youths; Policeman Injured

Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI: The arrest of two unruly youths – Ibrahim Ray Mond hailing from Mali in West Africa and Eneugwa Patrick Chekulube hailing from Nigeria – has led the police to vital information of their probable involvement in the minting of fake Indian currency.

The two youth did create a scene at Priya Lodge at Lokhra in Guwahati on Sunday. Following information from the lodge, Bashistha police had to pick them up. In the Bashistha police station, Chekulube struck a police personnel, Ajay Bora, hard on the head with the handcuffs and injured him. The police registered a case – 1381/19 u/s 120(B)/294/420/333/353 IPC, read with Section 14 of Foreigner Act 1946, read with Section 12 (1) (C) of Passport Act 1967.

According to ACP Nandini Kakati, a girl named Farjana Khan hailing from Uttarakhand accompanied the two youths at Priya Lodge. People from the lodge had to inform Basistha police as Chekulube had bitten the girl on her hand.

Meanwhile, the police found as many as 30 bundles of papers in the shape and size of 2000-rupee notes from a locker in the hotel room where the duo was staying, the ACP said, and added that such a recovery lends credence to their probable involvement in a racket running minting of fake Indian currency.

The ACP further said that Ibrahim Ray Mond had married a girl from Nagaland. “Both the youths were in the Guwahati Central Jail from where they got bail only a few days back,” the police officer said.

According to the police, the duo had also been arrested by Azara police a few months back on the charge of possessing fake passports and visas. They were in the Jail in that connection.

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