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| The Rs 1,000 fake currency note that waits to become "real" | | | Bharat Bhushan
JAMMU, Oct 19: This is the sordid tale of a Rs 1,000 fake currency note that was today the topic of discussion in the dusty Nagbani village, about 1 km off the lower Akhnoor road, near here.
Apart from generating discussion among a handful of men and a woman, the note was also the cause of heated exchanges between them.
It all started Monday evening. A bearded man brought home at Nagbani two fake currency notes of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 denomination. As per his claim, the notes were given to him by an unidentified vegetable dealer at Narwal vegetable market where he works.
He discussed the matter with a fat man who works in a teastall at Nagbani. If the discussion between them is to be believed, a deal was struck between them, according to which the fat man was to get Rs 200 for selling Rs 500 note and Rs 400 for Rs 1,000 note.
While Rs 500 note was later allegedly mixed with cash in a bank in the area, Rs 1,000 note was sold by the fat man to a village youth, said to be his cousin, for Rs 800.
The youth was now in a hurry to earn Rs 200. He first went to Nagbani market to get the note changed to smaller notes but when failed, he approached his aunt who lives in his neighbourhood. The woman gave him the change in the shape of smaller notes and took the Rs 1,000 note from him.
She, however, came to know this morning that the note, she was given, was fake. She lost temper and had a quarrel with the fat man as she could not find the youth.
The matter had not been sorted out till evening when it was decided to get the note back from the woman. Some held the view that it would be proper to get the larger note changed to smaller notes at night when it was difficult for anyone to differentiate between a real and a fake note.
Others suspected the role of the vegetable seller who worked at the Narwal mandi.
How he could get fake currency notes till he knew the fake currency operators in the state, they felt. |
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