The special operations group (SOG) of the Government Railway Police (GRP) of the New Jalpaiguri (NJP) unit arrested a man with fake Indian currency notes (FICN) at the NJP railway station late on Sunday evening.

A GRP source said that the arrested person, Md. Ekram Anwar, is from Purnia district's Hasanpur in Bihar. He was apprehended from a general compartment of the Agartala—Deoghar Express while travelling from Kamakhya in Assam to Bihar.

Following a tip-off, the SOG of the railway police conducted a raid at the station.

“FICN with a face value of ₹2.74 lakh was found in his possession. In addition, multiple SIM cards, two bank passbooks, a chequebook, two ATM cards and a cell phone were seized from his bag,” said a source.

The GRP and the SOG are probing the source of the counterfeit notes to determine whether the accused is linked to a larger fake currency racket.