Pakistan's ISI circulating fakes notes in Meghalaya

Shillong, May 14: The Meghalaya Police has alleged that the Pakistani intelligence agency Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) was circulating fake Indian currency notes in the North Eastern states to destabilize the economy of the region and also to fund the terror groups.

A police task force, investigating into the matter, had unearthed the modus operandi of the ISI in circulating the fake currencies in Rasinagre and Doomdooma villages in South Garo Hills district, bordering the unfenced Indo-Bangla border.

With the recent arrest of one Grikseng R Marak of Rasinagre village for circulating fake currency in Shillong, the state police blew the lid off the ISI design of pushing the fake notes into the country.

Rasinagre village, 200 m from the Indo-Bangla border, was the main route through which Bangladeshi nationals sneaked into the neighbouring Indian villages and lured the local poor youths into criminal activities, police sources said.

Sources informed UNI that the ISI had engaged one Sira Mustafa alias Samrat and Kalek Ali from Munsipara of Mymensingh district in Bangladesh to push fake currencies into India. It was also revealed that about 15 youths of Rasinagre were being used by the ISI.

According to the sources, Samrat visited Rasinagre village regularly and allured poor boys to circulate the fake notes by promising 50-50 business share. Driven by the poor economic condition in the area, some youths had given into the sinister designs of the ISI right under the nose of BSF jawans.

Some residents of Rasinagre village confirmed that besides Grikseng R Marak, three more youths of the village were active in the illegal business and the trio were present in Shillong but managed to escape from the police arrest.

Illegal businesses could flourish in these villages along the border as the villagers had been living in extreme poverty and they hardly had any employment option. The villagers also complained that the low cost houses constructed under the block scheme were all made of bamboo chips and no better than a cow shed. Negligence on the part of the authorities in the border areas compelled the people along the border to commit illegal businesses.

UNI