Two men were arrested in India for allegedly printing fake Rs 2000 ($29/€28) notes.
Ravi Gupta and Amit Raikesh were arrested after police were made aware that Amit had paid for petrol worth Rs 300 ($4/€4) with an Rs 2000 note that scanned as a fake, reported Hindustan Times. Police sub-inspector Upendra Tripathi said that when Amit was questioned “he told us that the fake note was handed over to him by friend Ravi Gupta”.
Both men were questioned, but Gupta later admitted that he had printed the notes on a coloured printer recently installed at the pathology lab where he worked in Burhar. Although police only found two note,s they suspect that Gupta had been printing them since the new notes came into circulation.
Tripathi said: “The duo was arrested on Saturday late night. The search at the pathology lab led the police to the authentic Rs 2,000 currency notes, whose series was replicated in the fake note handed over at the petrol pump. A torn piece of another fake Rs 2,000 note of similar series was found dumped in the dustbin at the lab.
“Recently we had got inputs about fake Rs 2,000 currency being circulated in a nearby vegetable market. We’ll now link this case with that development for possible association.”