CHENNAI/PUDUCHERRY: The fake currency racket busted in Puducherry last week seems to be part of a wider network operating across the country, with investigators having established a purported link between the gang arrested in the Union Territory to a Jharkhand-based man arrested at Chitlapakkam in Chennai on January 14, also on charges of circulating fake currency.On Sunday, the city police apprehended another Jharkhand man, Mohammed Sheik (20), at Saidapet when he attempted to buy soap bars from a provision store with a fake `1,000 note. Police said he has been remanded in their custody. They said they were probing his links with the Puducherry fake currency racket.Meanwhile, the National Investigation Agency is likely to send a team to Puducherry on Monday to interrogate another Jharkhand resident with a similar name, Mohammed Ismail Sheik, 30, who was arrested there with counterfeit currency and is suspected to be part of an international racket. The NIA had, on January 8 arrested three operatives from Chennai in this connection.
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