IN ITS DRIVE AGAINST FACILITIES ENGAGED IN PRINTING OF FAKE INDIAN CURRENCY NOTES (FICN), DRI BUSTS SEVEN MORE MODULES IN MAHARASHTRA (4), HARYANA (1), BIHAR (1) AND ANDHRA PRADESH (1); NINE ARRESTED

India, Feb. 21 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:

Continuing the drive against modules involved in the import of security paper and printing Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN), on 20th February 2025, DRI conducted simultaneous searches at 11 different places across Maharashtra, Haryana, Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Bihar yesterday and busted seven (7) additional modules involved in printing of FICN.

Earlier on 8th Feb, 2025, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) had arrested two persons found to be the actual importers of high-quality paper with embedded security thread having inscriptions of 'RBI' and 'Bharat' ('security paper') in Ghazipur District, Uttar Pradesh and Bengaluru, Karnataka and in the follow-...