Naxalite killed in encounter with police in Sukma
Raipur, May 12: A Naxalite was killed in an encounter with police in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, an official said on Friday. Three to four other Naxalites suffered injuries in the exchange of fire and arms, ammunition and other materials were also recovered from the encounter site, around 400 km from state capital Raipur, he said. The gunfight took place on Thursday night in a forest near Sirseti village under Kerlapal police station limits when separate teams of security personnel were out on an anti-Naxal operation, Sukma Superintendent of Police Sunil Sharma said. Acting on specific inputs about presence of a large number of Naxalites in hilly areas of Simel and Gogunda villages, teams of the District Reserve Guard (DRG), the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the Special Task Force (STF) launched the operation, he said. The identity of the deceased was yet to be ascertained, Sharma said. (PTI)
FICN racket busted in UP
Bahraich, May 12: Five people have been arrested on charges of circulating fake currency notes in areas along the India-Nepal border in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich district, police said on Friday. They were apprehended by a joint team of the state anti-terrorist squad and police from the Sumerpur area of Rupaidiha in the district that borders Nepal. Fake currency notes of face value of Indian rupees 52,000 and Nepalese rupees 5,000 have been seized from their possession along with papers used for printing counterfeit notes, Superintendent of Police Prashant Verma said. He said a laptop, a printer, a power cable, two Aadhaar cards, two PAN cards, five mobile phones and a car with a Delhi number plate have also been seized. During interrogation, the accused said they circulated fake currency notes in Rupaidiha as well as in various cities and villages of Nepal, Verma said. Those arrested have been identified as Mushtaq, Saleem, Aleem, Faizul Hasan and Kuldeep Awasthi, all residents of Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri, he said. (PTI)