Hotel workers held with fake notes

Police person arrested 2 persons, including an Assamese, for attempting to circulate counterfeit notes.

Police said a edifice idiosyncratic moving astatine an eatery connected the Thoothukudi – Madurai National Highway astatine Ettaiyapuram bought a fewer things from a adjacent store connected Saturday and gave ₹500. As the shopkeeper grew suspicious astir the genuineness of the currency note, helium alerted the Ettaiyapuram police, who picked-up the youth.

When the constabulary grilled the edifice worker, who was identified arsenic Saravanan of Kovilpatti and was nether the power of intoxicant adjacent arsenic helium was picked-up, helium told the constabulary that helium got the fake notes from the ‘master’ of his hotel, Kumar Sharma from Assam.

The constabulary besides nabbed Kumar Sharma with ₹70,000-worth counterfeit currency notes successful the denomination of 500.

Further investigations are on.