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Two Iranians nabbed for possessing fake Indian currency | Two female tourists hailing from Tehran were arrested
for possessing fake Indian currency while shopping at a lifestyle store in Chennai on Tuesday. The two women, incidentally mother and daughter and identified as
Mortazavi Asraf and Asraf Soloni, are on a month long visit to India. Reportedly
holding tourist visas, they arrived in the country on December 2 and visited many
places. In the upmarket Mylapore area, they were purchasing clothes at a store
when the shop owner smelt a rat on the veracity of the notes and informed the
police. Soon the police personnel arrived on the scene and found fake currency
notes worth Rs. 23000 all in the denomination of500 rupees. "Two females from
abroad said to be from Tehran, Iran, traded to exchange the counterfeit currency
in this shop. We rushed immediately and conducted a search and found out that
they were possessing fake currency of about 23000 rupees. We consulted the bank
officials who also confirmed the currency to be fake," said Jawahar, Inspector
of Police, Mylapore Police Station. Mortazavi Asraf (62) and her daughter Asraf
Soloni (25) were produced in the city court and were remanded to judicial custody
till January 12. The passports of both the ladies have been confiscated. Several
cases of fake currency, being smuggled into India have been reported form several
parts of the country. |
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