The World is observing ‘Anti-Counterfeiting
Day’ on
13th June
2012. The
latest report
by Home
Affairs
Ministry
notifies
that large
quantities
of ‘Fake
Indian Currency
Note’ (FICN)
are pumped
into India
from countries
like Pakistan,
Nepal, Bangladesh,
Sri Lanka,
Malaysia,
Thailand,
and the
UAE, as
reported
by Zee
News on
July 13.
As per the
analysis
of Zee
Research
Group,
between
2009 till
June 2011
nearly INR
60 crore
worth of
FICN had
been seized
by the Government
of India.
Latest data
furnished
by the Finance
Ministry
suggests
that private
sector banks
like ICICI
Bank (INR
3.78 lakhs)
followed
by HDFC
Bank (INR
0.43 lakh)
and Axis
Bank (INR
0.37 lakh)
had detected
highest
number of
FICN during
April 2011
to Mar 2012.
State profiling on FICN suggests that during
2009 till
June 2011
period,
Maharashtra
recovered
the highest
amount of
FICN worth
INR 8.49
crore followed
by Delhi
(INR 8.24
crore) ,Uttar
Pradesh
(INR 7.71
crore) and
West Bengal
(INR 6.37
crore).
It further added that during 2007-2011, 118
persons
were arrested
for their
involvement
in transit
of FICN.
On figuring
out the
nationality
of the culprits,
it was found
that 99
were Indians
followed
by Pakistani
(10), Bangladeshi
(6), Thai
(1), Afghani
(1), and
Nepali (1). |
