Thursday, July 4, 2013

RBI detects fake currency, complains to police

PANJIM: The Reserve Bank of India, Navi Mumbai has lodged two separate complaints with the Economic Offences Cell of Goa Police after finding fake currency amounting to Rs 4,300.  In the first complaint, Assistant Manager RBI V I Saunchu complained that prior to April 2013 unknown persons deposited 12 forged Indian currency notes at State Bank of India Treasury Branch, Panjim and SBI Mapusa Branch. “RBI Belapur Navi Mumbai found that these notes were counterfeit,” the complainant said. The police said that the complaint states that eight notes of Rs 100 denominations, three of Rs 500 denominations and one of Rs 1000 deposited in the two banks were fake. Another complaint filed by Manager RBI, Belapur in Navi Mumbai L Bagwan alleged that one note of Rs 1000 denomination deposited at Bank of India, Patto Branch in Panjim was detected as fake. 
Police have registered the two cases under sections 489-A and 489-E of the India Penal Code.


Source - Herald, Goa

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