Guwahati: A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader was arrested for his alleged involvement in the smuggling of Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) in Nagaon on Friday.

The arrested individual has been identified as Amir Hussain.

As per sources, Amir Hussain was apprehended during a raid conducted in Rupohihat.

Arrested accused has been involved in the counterfeit money trade for an extended period, sources stated.

Earlier, the police had also recovered FICN printing machine along with fake notes from his residence.

Currently, he is being questioned to unearth further linkages, police said.

On Friday too, police arrested five persons and recovered a fake gold statue of Jesus Christ, biscuit in two separate operations in Nagaon and Sonitpur districts, police said.

In the first operation, police conducted an operation at Namdoboka Pathar area under Doboka police station in Nagaon district and arrested three persons.

The police team recovered one fake gold statue of Jesus Christ weighing 1.700 kg in possession from them.

A police officer of Doboka police station said that they launched the operation based on secret information. However, one fake gold statue of Jesus Christ and arrested three persons.

The arrested have been identified as Aslam Talukdar, Zubair Hussain and Iqbal Hussain.

In a separate operation, Sonitpur district police arrested two persons and recovered a fake gold biscuit from the Tezpur Salanibari area.

The arrested persons were identified as Ikramul Hussain and Jamal Ali.

Further investigation is underway.

Recently, North Lakhimpur‘s Superintendent of Police Anand Mishra took a significant step by introducing a complaint helpline number to tackle the menace of fake gold and counterfeit currency.

The helpline number is 6000815799, it aims to empower individuals to report incidents related to fraudulent activities and help identify those involved in such crimes.