On February 27, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Special Court in Kolkata in West Bengal sentenced one accused identified as Akramul of Malda District of West Bengal to five years Rigorous Imprisonment (RI), and INR 10,000 fine under sections 489C & 120B of Indian penal Code (IPC), as well as seven years RI and INR 10,000 fine under 16 &18 of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) in the 2021 Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) seizure case, taking the total number of convictions in the case to three, reports NIA. All sentences will run concurrently. A special task force at Lalbazar Street Police station in Kolkata had initially registered a First Information Report (FIR) in the case on January 22, 2020 against Akramul and Senaul Sk alias Senaul, following the seizure of huge quantity of high quality FICNs in the denomination of INR 500. Subsequent questioning of Senaul led to the arrest of the third accused, Enamul Hoque, on February 1, 2020, along with seizure of more FICN. The case was taken over and re-registered by NIA in March 2020, and investigations by the agency led to the arrest of the four accused. NIA found that all the four accused had hatched a criminal conspiracy for procuring and circulating FICNs with the intention to use the same for unlawful gains.