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Daltonganj, Aug 5: No breakthrough has been made by the police in the fake currency notes racket in Palamu. The Satbarwa police, under whose territorial jurisdiction the counterfeit money duped a Dalit family, still grope in darkness.
The officer in charge of the Satbarwa police station Rishikesh Rai did not talk about the episode saying, “It is in my cognizance.”
Afterwards, SDPO Surjit Kumar was approached by lagatar24.com to know the details of the episode.
Sources said there is clinching evidence of fake currency notes floating in the cattle market but the local Satbarwa police are taking it as any other lighter issue.
A Dalit couple Bijli Ram and his wife Budhwareeay of village Pathrahee under the Lesliganj police station was duped for Rs 10,000 with fake currency notes in the Wednesday cattle market at Satbarwa, 28 kilometres away from Daltonganj on Wednesday, August 3.
SDPO Surjit Kumar said the Dalit couple sold a pair of goats and fake currency notes in the denomination of Rs 200 were paid to them by the unidentified buyers.
According to reports, there were two buyers but no one is sure if more of them could not be around.
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SDPO Surjit Kumar said the seller couple and the buyers did not obtain the mandatory Chowdherana receipt to save Rs 100 which a seller is to cough up for any sale of the cattle or goats etc.
“Had the Chowdherana receipt been booked it would have carried the necessary details of the seller, buyer and type of the livestock with price mentioned to it,” explained Surjit.
Chowdherana receipt is an important document in the sale-purchase of livestock as their transit by the buyer without this receipt is set to jeopardize them into trouble like thrashing around or even dread of lynching also on a variety of suspicions like the cattle to be of theft one, going to slaughter the cattle.
SDPO Surjit Kumar said Satbarwa police have been asked to unearth this episode of marketing of fake currency notes at the earliest.
Satbarwa police station, located on NH 75, and has a very popular cattle market where cattle traders from far-off places, even Chhatisgarh, come.
The regional manager of State Bank of India (SBI) Manoj Kumar Prasad said, “We ask everyone to be cautious in dealing with transactions of cash between the two hands or at the counters of the banks.”
The regional manager asserted one should be aware of the security features of the genuine currency notes and should not settle with a situation where the security features of the currency notes appear dubious.
“Our officials at the counters are quite vigilant about the security features of the notes and we wish our esteemed customers to be alert also,” he added.
