NIA SECURES 6TH CONVICTION IN EAST CHAMPARAN FAKE CURRENCY CASE

New Delhi, 6th Sep : A sixth accused was convicted by the NIA Special Court, Patna in the fake currency case of East Champaran, Bihar yesterday.
Forty-six-year old Munna Singh had pleaded guilty to the charges filed against him by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) under sections 120B & 489B of the IPC and sections 16, 18, 20 & 21 of the UA(P) Act.  The sentence against him will be pronounced by the Court on 11th September.

The case was originally registered on 19th September 2015 and taken over by the NIA on 23rd December of the same year. Since then, the NIA has chargesheeted eight accused, of whom five were convicted earlier.
A total of 10 accused were involved in the case relating to the seizure of High quality Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICNs) of face value of Rs. 5,94,000 from one Afroz Ansari. The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) had nabbed him near Ramgarhwa, Motihari, East Champaran, while he was carrying the fake currency consignment to Raxaul, near the Indo-Nepal border, for further delivery in Nepal. The case was subsequently taken over by the NIA.
During investigations in the case (RC-15/2015/NIA-DLI), the NIA arrested and chargesheeted a total of eight persons between 2016 and 2023. Four of the accused, namely Afroz Ansari, Sunny Kumar @ Sunny Shaw @ Sujit Kumar @ Kabir Khan, Ashraful Alam @ Ishraful Alam and Alomgir Seikh @ Raju  were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, along with a fine of Rs 30,000, by the NIA Special court in October 2018. Another accused, Raisuddin, was sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment with fine of Rs. 5000 last month.