Dr B Thomas (Special correspondent)
The Halasurgate police are on the lookout for a man who deposited five fake currency notes of Rs 500 denominations into Cash deposit machine at the Narayana Hrudayalaya hospital premises along with Rs 1.04 lakh into a bank account .
The fraud came to light when the back officials recovered the cash from ATM on last Wednesday and tried to deposit along with other currency notes to RBI.
The officials detected the notes and alerted the bank seeking explanations.
Following the verification it was found that the man had deposited the fake currency notes along with the other currency notes total of Rs 1.04 lakh to a saving bank account with a private bank.
Based on the instructions by RBI,the bank officials rushed to Halasurugate police and filed a complaint seeking legal action against the accused on tuesday .
The Halasurgate police have taken up a case against the unknown person charging him under section 489 c ( Possession of forged or counterfeit currency-notes or bank-notes.) of IPC and sought details of the bank account where the money was transferred,for further investigations.
