Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)
Mangaluru, Apr 2: A boy who tried to dupe a shop owner on Kinnigoli main road was caught and handed over to the police on Monday April 1 afternoon.
The boy presented a Rs 200 note that was apparently printed for children to use as a toy, in the shop belonging to Ravalnath Mallya near the Kinnigoli market at 2 pm on Monday. He sought to buy a soap;. The shop owner grew suspicious and tried to stop the boy who escaped. After the shop owner raised an alarm, other shopkeepers stopped the boy and handed him over to Mulky police.
The boy, a resident of Guttakad Kalkere, is said to be a student of an English medium school. It is said that he had bought the said currency note from Tokyo Bazar Mangaluru by paying two rupees. Since the last some days, he was trying to buy things from various shops near the Kinnigoli bus stand and the market there by using this and other similar notes.