A Class VII boy was arrested after fake Indian currency amounting to Rs 4.40 lakh was seized from his possession in Malda’s Kaliachak on Sunday.

Shyam Sundar Saha, the officer-in-charge of Golapganj police outpost, said they had information that smugglers were circulating fake notes by engaging minor boys.

“The 12-year-old boy was engaged as a carrier by a relative. Searches are on to nab him. Counterfeit notes in denomination of Rs 500 and another 120 in denomination of Rs 2,000 were seized from him,” Saha added. On Monday, the boy was produced before the Juvenile Justice Board and sent to a juvenile home in Murshidabad district.

The detective department of Siliguri Metropolitan Police, Pradhannagar police and a team of cops from Sikkim raided a medicine shop in the Champasari area of Siliguri on Sunday night and held two alleged drug peddlers.

The arrested duo have been identified as Kamrul Huda and Mortaja Alam.

Both were produced at a local court in Siliguri on Monday and have been taken away to Sikkim on transit remand, said sources.