Hindustan Times (Delhi)

Children Bank of India note? Cop disbelieve­s it, loses ₹2K Similar note dispensed by SBI ATM in Ghaziabad

- Shiv Sunny shiv.sunny@hindustant­imes.com Shiv Sunny shiv.sunny@hindustant­imes.com

NEW DELHI: Not believing the claims of a call centre employee that a State Bank of India ATM in south Delhi had dispensed bogus notes proved costly for Delhi Police sub-inspector Saurabh Kumar.

Kumar swiped his own card at the ATM to check whether the complainan­t, Rohit, was telling the truth. In the process, he too received a similar note, losing ₹2,000 from his account for the time-being.

Rohit, a customer care executive at a call centre in Chhatarpur, had visited the SBI ATM located in Sangam Vihar’s Tigri on February to withdraw ₹8,000. What he received were four notes with ‘Churan Lable’, ‘Children Bank of India’ and ‘Bharatiya Manoranjan Bank’ written on them.

When the guard deployed at the ATM booth refused to believe that the bogus notes were dispensed by the ATM, Rohit dialed 100 to seek police’s help. Kumar and a head constable soon arrived at the scene. They were taken aback by Rohit’s claims but refused to believe him.

To prove Rohit wrong, the sub-inspector handed over his Axis Bank card to his junior to withdraw ₹2,000 and prove Rohit wrong. The sub-inspector stood confidentl­y, watching over the head constable’s shoulder, even as Rohit and a few others waited in anticipati­on.

When the note was dispensed in a few seconds, the sub-inspector was left regretting his decision. He had lost ₹2,000 from his pocket and would have to wait for several days before he may be reimbursed the amount.

Thereafter, the ATM was immediatel­y sealed and the police did not delay the registrati­on of a FIR in the matter. Senior police officers claimed they asked a few customers who had Bharatiya Manoranjan Bank instead of Bharatiya Reserve Bank

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Rupee sign missing

Churan Lable instead of strip with leaf markings

withdrawn cash before Rohit and they all claimed to have received genuine notes.

Police said that State Bank of Indiahasla­idtheblame­onan employee of Brinks India Pvt Ltd, a logistics and cash management company.

Romil Baaniya, DCP (south), said the employee has been identified as Mohd Isha. “The liability had been fixed on Mohd Isha as he was the custodian of the currency notes at the time of the incident,” said Baaniya.

He has been asked to join the probe, but the police will not be arresting him as yet. “He was the sole custodian of the vault that contained these notes along with P.K. logo instead of RBI seal Governor’s signature missing I promise to pay the barer two thousand coupens (sic) instead of I promise to pay the bearer the sum of two thousand rupees

others. So, for now the focus is on him,” said Baaniya.

When the matter had been reported to the police on February 6, a case of cheating, manufactur­ing documents resembling currency notes and using forged or counterfei­t notes had been registered at Sangam Vihar police station.

“But our probe revealed that the notes were not counterfei­t. Such notes are available at toy shops. So, we revised the Indian Penal Code sections and registered a case of cheating and criminal breach of trust. The case is against unknown persons, but Isha’s role came up in the probe” said Baaniya.

Children Bank of India instead of Reserve Bank of India

Guaranteed by the Children Government instead of Gauranteed by the Central Government

Churan Lable instead of the Ashok emblem A Prime Minister who can’t even print currency notes properly, how will he run the country? The entire nation has been humiliated.

Delhi chief minister

Rubbing salt on poor people’s wounds by this mockery of the country #Notebandi. The country has never been mocked as much in 70 years as it has been in the past about three years.

CPI(M) general secretary NEW DELHI: Another ATM in neighbouri­ng Ghaziabad had dispensed a fake ₹2,000 note to an MNC employee in January 24, just days before the cash machine of the State Bank of India at Sangam Vihar dispensed five notes with ‘Churan Lable’ on them on February 6.

The victim in this case, 26-year-old Sidhant Shashikar, tried his best to recover his lost money, but the bank manager allegedly dismissed his allegation­s saying that all the notes are “sorted” before filling them in the ATM’s vault.

Shashikar is employed at HCL Technologi­es and was headed to work when he stopped at an SBI ATM in Indirapura­m’s Gyankhand area and used his grandmothe­r’s PNB card to withdraw ₹2,000. “The note had ‘Churan Lable’, ‘Bharatiya Manoranjan Bank’ and ‘Children Bank of India’ written on it. I showed it to the guard at the ATM before visitingth­ebranchman­ager,” said Shashikar.

The bank manager, however, returned the letter to Shashikar by saying that the note in question did not pertain to them “as all the notes are sorted before replenishi­ng them in the ATM”.

The family said they did not approach the police as they had little hopes from them, but had safely kept the note with them all this while.

RACKET? A man withdrew ₹8,000 from a SBI ATM in south Delhi, instead he got four bogus ₹2,000 notes with ‘Churan Lable’ written on them, such notes are available at toy shops

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Sidhant Shashikar.

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