How Delhi Police constable posed as 'decoy customer', caught man with Rs 60,000 counterfeit currency in 2018

This month, a Delhi court is set to sentence a man convicted of dealing in counterfeit currency. However, the series of events that led to the man’s arrest was set into motion on a chilly afternoon on October 16, 2018, when a secret informer arrived at the office of the Anti-Auto Theft Squad (AATS) in Delhi’s Shahdara with a vital piece of information, as per court records.

- GNS News Agency, July 11

The informer told Constable Manu that a man named Mohammed Hussain was selling counterfeit currency at the service road near the Cross River Mall in Shahdara. This tip-off led the police to believe that Hussain had been circulating and trafficking fake Indian currency notes (FICNs). The information was conveyed to ispector Sanjay Sharma, the AATS in-charge, and a raiding te