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Lucknow: A Reserve Bank of India (RBI) team scanning the currency chest of the State Bank of India (SBI) branch at Domariyaganj in Uttar Pradesh, found fake currency notes amounting to Rs4.6 million (Dh418,181), officials said on Wednesday.
Earlier on Monday, when the team raided the bank in Siddharthnagar district, it found fake currency nominally worth Rs2 million.
Cash for all branches of the bank in the region is distributed from this chest.
Police officials fear a fake currency racket worth Rs500 million might be thriving in regions of Uttar pradesh bordering Nepal.
"A case was lodged against arrested bank cashier Sudhakar Tripathi by manager Dashrath Cirgainya on Monday," Shamsher Bahadur Singh of the Domariyaganj police station said.
According to bank sources, 20 bundles of Rs1,000 notes, recovered on Monday, were found to be carrying the same serial number (5 CK 756601).
"The fresh haul consists of Rs500 and Rs1,000 notes and a majority of them bearing the same serial number," a bank official said.
The bank officials have also been asked to lodge a report once their scanning process is over, he added.
A bank source said: "It will take 15-20 days to verify the authenticity of all the currency notes in the bank's currency chest."
The team also found a sum of about Rs7 million missing from the bank's chest. Additional Director General of Police Brij Lal said: "This racket has been thriving with the connivance of the bank staff, who were clearly found to be involved in clandestine replacement of notes with fake currency."
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