When ‘fake’ turned real

.....Following regular procedure, the police informed the RBI office in Kochi, which then forwarded the notes to RBI Thiruvananthapuram. After much time and money had been spent on bringing the Rs. 5 notes to the capital city, officials confirmed that the notes were indeed genuine. Officials said there may have been some error in printing and the security thread was missing as they were printed before 2005, when new features were added to the currency notes.  As the notes had already been marked ‘counterfeit,’ the police had no other go but to get them exchanged at the RBI.........

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