Rs 500 notes without serial numbers dispensed from SBI ATM

Adding on to the rising issue of fake notes getting dispensed from ATMs across the country, a man, on Tuesday withdrew Rs 500 notes without serial numbers from a State Bank of India ATM in Domah, Madhya Pradesh.

Last week, another State Bank of India ATM in New Delhi dispensed a fake Rs 2000 note bearing 'Children Bank of India' instead of Reserve Bank of India. Recently, another incident involving an ICICI Bank ATM had come to light.

According to a report in The Times of India, a Haryana police constable Raj Kumar received a fake Rs 2,000 note from an ICICI ATM in a town called Mehram in Rohtak when he withdrew Rs 6,000 on February 23. He later complained to the cops about the incident.

Apart from 'Children Bank of India', the bank also read 'Ek Kadam Swachhta ki Aur' and 'Bharatiya Manoranjan Bank'.

Apart from this incident, there have been two other similar independent instances where fake Rs 2000 notes bearing the aforementioned text have been dispensed from ATMs.

In the Mehram incident, Kumar who had reportedly withdrawn money for the first time from the ATM since demonetization, said "the fake note looked genuine and realised that something was not right only after careful examination," the report said.

The guarantor on the note is 'Children Government' and it promised to pay the bearer 2,000 coupons.

Just a day before the incident in Mehram, a call centre executive in New Delhi had withdrawn Rs 8,000 and received fake Rs 500 and Rs 2,000 notes bearing the 'Children Bank of India' and other embellishments found on the aforementioned notes. On February 25, another SBI ATM, this time in Shahjahanpur in UP reportedly dispensed a scanned copy of a Rs 2,000 note.

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