On Tuesday, one arrested with a fake Rs 2000 note. Madhusudhan Meher from Jharsuguda was arrested by the police, as he was trying to make his payment at Sunarimunda petrol pump with a fake Rs 2000 note.
Madhusudan Meher works as an engineer at the steel company in Orissa.
The counterfeit was a photocopy of the original note which was made as a means of payment. The worker at the petrol pump got hold of the note and immediately informed his Manager, to which, the police was called on the site. His case has been registered with Jharsuguda police and the investigation is under process.
This is one of the many cases that has been reported to the police since the arrival of new currency in the market. As many still don’t know about the key things that discriminate a fake note from a new one, instances like these can be seen on the rise.
Another case was reported in Balangir district of Orissa, where the police seized Rs 12 Lakh from a recruitment agent’s house. Khirasagar Bag, also known as ‘dadan sardar’, deals with the recruitment process of migrant labourers by charging huge amount of cash.
The raid was conducted at his house, on a tip-off about a huge amount of fake new notes. However, no fake notes were found, but a total of Rs 4.8 Lakh was found in new currency notes of Rs 2000. Bolangir SP Ashish Singh said that the police is conducting an investigation on how Khirasagar was able to arrange such huge amount, while others have to wait for hours in the lines of Banks and ATMs for cash.
As per police, he was using locals to get new notes in exchange of demonetised currency, but Khirasagar Bag managed to escape before the police raid.
Other cases of fake currency reported in the recent past:
1. November 21, 2016: Balaji Sankar Sardar was caught with a fake (photocopy) of Rs 2000 note, that he tried to exchange with a paanwala in return of two demonetised notes of Rs 1000. This incident occurred in Jamshedpur, Kolkata.
2. November 18, 2016: Sandeep Kumar and Harjinder Singh were circulating counterfeit notes of Rs 2000 in Bhikhiwind town of Punjab. These notes were actually the photocopy of the original ones.
3. November 11, 2016: Sumit Kumar Tudu was depositing Rs 2.5 Lakh in his bank account, out of which Rs 47,000 of demonetised notes were fake ones. The youth was depositing the money in his father’s account as been told by his father, who is a bank officer.
These cases shed a light on the fact that no matter how much problem, we are facing with the whole demonetisation scenario, there are some who have already taken the easy way out.
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22 November 2016
Jyotsna Amla