The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA) has assigned two ‘Karnataka’ cases of circulation of the Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICNs) to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), reports The New Indian Express on September 22. The NIA special court Judge—SiddalingaPrabhu passed the order to hand-over the custody of accused Gangadhar Kolkar for 15 days to the NIA-Mumbai. The accused was required for interrogation to ascertain the supply chain of counterfeit notes and also to trace other members of the FICN network involved in ‘damaging the monetary stability of India’. As per the definition of a ‘terrorist act’ as defined in the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) [UA(P)] Act— any action or omission in damaging the monetary stability of India amounts to the ‘terrorist activity’, read the order from NIA court.