Birendra said Aslam had links with one Mohammand Amin Zalu, a resident of Anant Nag in Jammu and Kashmir having close links with terrorist groups.

Moreover, Birendra disclosed that Rs 40 lakh worth of counterfeit currencies were recently given by Aslam to terrorist outfits of Jammu and Kashmir.

He is also reported to have confessed that of late a large amount of counterfeit Indian currency were being pumped into the country through the porous Indo-Nepal border.

However, one of the most disturbing revelation made by him is about nine youths from PATNA recruited by Aslam for undergoing training in the Kashmir Valley. According to Birendra, Aslam mostly operates from hotels located in different places across the country.

Circulation of counterfeit currency is fast emerging as a major problem for the state police. A former state home commissisoner is reported to have detected counterfeit currency from the cash he withdrew from the bank from his salary account.

The economic offence wing of the CID has reports of counterfeit currency being detected in strong rooms of banks and post offices in Nalanda district.

More recently, the RBI during its meeting with state police officials had expressed concern over the growing menace of counterfeit currency being pumped into the state.

Senior police officials have asked the RBI to instruct banks to keep the machines meant for detecting counterfeit currency in every bank branch. "But Birendra's confession has added another dimension, that of terrorism, to the counterfeir currency problem facing Bihar," conceded a senior state government .