Udupi: Circulation of Fake Currency Notes - Innocents Get Cheated

Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (SP)

Udupi, Apr 17: A large number of innocent people from the district, it is gathered, are facing problems because of high circulation of currency notes of Rs 500 denomination in the district. People living in villages are most gullible to this kind of cheating.

The fact that they are taken for a ride comes into the open when these villagers, who visit towns for business or selling their produce, try to deposit the cash they so get, into their bank accounts. The bank branches too come under pressure because of the fake currency notes which get mixed with genuine notes, while being presented to them.

Although they are required to file police complaints in such cases by collecting full details from the customers, many a times, particularly when the persons tendering cash is an important clients, it is gathered, the bank employees inform the concerned about the fake notes in private, and destroy the notes.

Fake notes normally are circulated by people who want to pose a threat to the economic stability of the country. It is suspected that people, who have high status in the society because of their wealth, get involved with sale of drugs and circulation of fake notes by having links with foreign-based rackets. A large chunk of nation’s wealth gets siphoned off this way.

It is believed that a number of educated youth from the district have also have got involved with the fake notes racket, having been lured by the enticement to make fast buck. Their lust for wealth is robbing the rural people, who work hard for every rupee, of their hard-earned money and mental peace. If these rural people get involved with police inquiry because of the fake notes in their possession, they also face embarrassment and ridicule in the public.

The people hope that the police and intelligence agencies will root out these corrupt weeds and allow the people to live in peace.