Madurai

Fake currency notes valued at Rs 7.62 lakh, in the denomination of Rs 2,000, have been seized by Thilagar Thidal police in Madurai.

Investigations revealed that the seized 381 currency notes were stuffed inside a bag, which was found in a truck laden with bottles of drinking water in a parking lot at the east entrance of Madurai Railway junction late on Sunday.

According to P. Boopathy, 36, of Namakal, the truck driver and the complainant, his co-driver Chellaiyan was driving the truck from Namakal to Madurai on November 1 and continued transportation to Maharashtra and Chennai.

On return to Madurai on November 16, the truck with bottles of drinking water transported some goods from Palur village near Chengalpattu. When the truck stopped near a toll gate on Tiruchy by-pass road, Boopathy was assigned the task to drive the truck to Madurai and handover the water bottles to Sathish, a contract agent. After the truck reached Madurai railway junction at 10.30 pm on Saturday, the load man off-loaded about half of the load after meeting Manivel, the sub-contract of the IRDC at the railway junction.

Boopathy then slept in the front cabin of the truck on Saturday night. While the rest of the parcel, covered by tarpaulin, in the truck was off-loaded at 8.30 am on Sunday, Boopathy noticed a small parcel over the tarpaulin. He thought that it could be a leftover food parcel and tried to dispose it off. Since the parcel weighed unusually, Boopathy took it to the attention of Manivel, who after unfolding the parcel, found currency notes. On being alerted, the Thilagar Thidal police seized the notes, which were found to be fake.

Based on a complaint lodged by Boopathi at 11.30 pm on Sunday, a case was filed under Section 489 (c) of the IPC. Investigation is under way.

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