Patna, July 8: Bara and Parsa districts in Nepal have of late become a corridor of criminals circulating fake currency notes into India through the porous frontier.

The trend came to light during interrogation of Taufiq Alam Ansari, a Nepalese citizen arrested at Bata chowk in Raxaul near India-Nepal border in East Champaran district yesterday. Police had found counterfeit notes with a face value on him.

Raxaul sub-divisional police officer Jitendra Pandey today said the seized consignment was supposed to be delivered to a resident of Siwan. “Before Ansari could meet the receiver of the consignment, he was caught by the police,” he told The Telegraph over the phone.

Pandey said Ansari, a resident of Chhapkahian near Birganj in Nepal, admitted during interrogation that he had received the consignment from a resident of Bara district.

“Indian fake currency notes are dumped in Bara and Parsa from Pakistan from where the consignments of notes reach Parsodipur village in Bihar’s East Champaran district,” Pandey quoted Ansari as saying.

The officer added that Ansari had visited Raxaul twice before. “Ansari, who is in his twenties, is involved in the clandestine trade for long,” said Bikram Singh Thakur, the assistant commandant of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), 13th battalion.