In a country where inter-departmental coordination hardly takes place in the government, a joint exercise undertaken by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) is bearing fruits. The NCRB has started coordinating with the RBI for collection and sharing of Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) data. The new tables, which have been introduced in the NCRB's annual publication on crime, reveal that although the...
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Fake 2,000-rupee note was out within 53 days of demonetisation
-IANS It didn't take long for fake notes of 2,000 rupees to start circulating after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced demonetisation in November 2016, with one of its stated aims being to kill counterfeit currency, official data show. According to the National Crime Records Bureau's (NCRB) latest report released on November 30, a total of 2,272 fake notes of Rs 2,000 denomination were seized in 2016. Since the Rs 2,000 note --...
More »Supreme Court collegium should explain why Justice Jayant Patel's transfer was in public interest -Sruthisagar Yamunan
-Scroll.in The manner in which the transfer was effected has raised questions about transparency in judicial appointments. Justice Jayant Patel of the Karnataka High Court resigned on September 25, after he was transferred to the Allahabad High Court. The transfer meant Patel lost the opportunity to become chief justice of the Karnataka High Court, where he was the second-most senior judge. In the Allahabad High Court, he would have been relegated to the...
More »Compensate cow violence victims, punish violators: SC to states -Ananthakrishnan G
-The Indian Express Taking serious note of violence in the name of saving cows, the Supreme Court had on September 6 passed a slew of measures and asked states to appoint a senior police officer in every district as a nodal officer. New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday said states were under obligation to compensate victims of violence by cow vigilante groups even without any judicial order. “We do not have...
More »Gujarat accounted for 40% of fake Rs 2,000 notes seized -Ashish Chauhan
-The Times of India AHMEDABAD: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced demonetization on November 8, 2016, of his stated intentions for the move was to attack counterfeit notes. However, the rate of seizures of fake currency notes across the country has remained the same, even after Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes were declared illegal. The model state of Gujarat had the most seizures of Rs 2,000 notes after demonetization, figures...
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