BETTIAH, Jan. 5 -- A joint team of Nepal police and East Champaran police seized a huge cache of counterfeit Nepali currency along with printing machines during coordinated raids at a village in the district, police said on Monday.

Giving the information, Mufassil police's station house officer (SHO) Ambesh Kumar, said that the operation was carried out at a rented house at Pataura village in East Champaran around 8pm on Sunday following the arrest of a man in Nepal who was indulged in an organised racket engaged in printing and circulating fake Nepali notes in border areas.

"During the raids, the team recovered counterfeit Nepali notes, printing equipment, ink, paper and other materials used in the manufacturing process," said the SHO....