Information About Incident 69068-141469-359146 in Chennai India

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As reported on May 1, Tamil Nadu 'Q' branch sleuths arrested two associates of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) operative Sakir Hussain in Chennai, in addition, the Police also seized Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) to the tune of INR 2,50,000 from them.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Nadu 'Q Chennai
• Matched District: Chennai
• Actgroup: arrest
• Actor: Tamil Nadu 'Q ' branch sleuths
• Subject: two associates of Inter- Services Intelligence ( ISI ) operative Sakir Hussain in Chennai

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As reported on May 1, Tamil Nadu 'Q' branch sleuths arrested two associates of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) operative Sakir Hussain in Chennai, in addition, the Police also seized Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) to the tune of INR 2,50,000 from them. Those arrested are identified as Siva Balan, a Sri Lankan Tamil, and Mohammad Salim, of Royapuram, Chennai. Siva Balan worked as a freelance journalist with a magazine in Chennai, while Salim was running a showroom in T Nagar. Police arrested them based on information given by Hussain. Investigators said the fake currency notes had virtually all the salient features of the original. We are interrogating the duo to know about the origin of the currency. The duo will be remanded in judicial custody after producing them before the magistrate court in Chennai on Friday (May 2), a Police officer said. During questioning, the duo told the investigation officers that they acted as mediators and collected INR 2,000 for every INR 1,00,000 FICN circulated in the market.

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