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Subarnapur police busted a fake currency racket

Subarnapur: 27/4/18:Subarnapur police today busted a fake currency racket in Biramaharajpur area of the district and arrested at least three persons in this connection with seizure of 45 counterfeit currency notes of Rs 500 denomination from their possession.

However, one accused managed to give police a slip during the raid.

The arrestees have been identified as Ranjit Naik of Manamunda village of Sambalpur district, Rajesh Kumar Sahu of Gudavelipadar village of Boudh district and Sarbeswar Mishra of Panisiali village of Subarnapur district.

According to reports, the four had bought goats from a resident of Saradhapali village, identified as Dayamani Lakra, at a cost of Rs 40,000 a few days ago. However, Lakra’s wife found the currency notes fake when she went to a grocery shop for a transaction in the village at a later stage.

Lakra lodged a police complaint in this regard following which police raided house of the accused and succeeded to bust the racket indulged in fake currency racket.

Further investigation is underway in the incident and efforts are on to nab the absconding accused, said a police official.

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Ashok Palit has completed his graduation from Upendranath College Soro, Balasore and post graduation from Utkal University in Odia Language and literture.. He has also carved out a niche for himself as a scribe of eminence after joining the profession in 1988. He is also an independent media production professional. He brings loads of experience to Advanced Media, Ashok Palit as a cineaste has been active in film criticism for over three decades. As a film society activist, he soared to eminence for his profound commitment to the art film appreciation and aesthetics of cinema. His mode of discourse is often erudite but always lucid and comprehensible marked by a perfect acumen so rare in the field. A film aesthete with an immense fond of critical sensibilities, he wrote about growth and development of odia cinema in New Indian Express, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Asian Age and Screen. He has been working as an Editor for Cine Samaya from 2002-2004.. He had made solid contribution on cinema in many odia Dailies and weekly such as Samaj, Prajatantra, Dharatri, Samaya, Satabadi, and weekly Samaya.
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