Bengaluru: A few days after people in Madhya Pradesh found Rs 2000 notes without Mahatma Gandhi’s image, similar notes were found in Anekal on the outskirts of Bengaluru.
It is said that when a local withdrew Rs 24,000 from his bank account, he was in for a shock when he noticed that Gandhi’s image was missing from few of the notes. Of the 12 notes the person received, many were blank on one side. It was only after he went to pay his house rent that he found the mistake in the notes. The man’s ordeal was not over, as when he went to the bank to exchange the notes, they too turned him away.
Bank officials alleged that the man had gone to the RBI office in Bengaluru to exchange the notes, but the man argued that he was given the notes at the bank; finally after a heated argument, bank officials exchanged the notes after checking CCTV footage and verifying serial number of the notes.
While some felt that they were fake notes, bank officials said that they were genuine notes but the mistake was a result of defect in printing.
(Agencies)
