Police Arrest Man in Erode for Possession of Counterfeit ₹500 and ₹200 Notes; Claims Fake Notes Were Left Over from Previous Case
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- •A 36-year-old man, M. Logesh, was arrested by Sirumugai police for possessing counterfeit ₹500 and ₹200 notes.
- •Police recovered 63 fake ₹500 notes and 9 fake ₹200 notes from his aunt’s house in Sirumugai.
- •The case was initiated after a milk vendor’s bank deposit machine rejected a counterfeit ₹500 note used by Logesh’s aunt.
- •Logesh claimed the fake notes were leftovers from a previous counterfeit case and that his aunt was unaware of their nature.
Sirumugai police arrested a 36-year-old man, identified as M. Logesh, on Sunday for allegedly possessing counterfeit currency notes of ₹500 and ₹200 denominations. According to police sources, Logesh, a resident of K.N. Palayam road near Sathyamangalam in Erode district, was staying with his aunt in Sirumugai at the time of his arrest.
The case surfaced after Logesh’s aunt used one of the counterfeit notes to make a payment to a local milk vendor. The vendor, while attempting to deposit the currency along with other genuine notes in a bank’s cash deposit machine, noticed that the note was fake and was rejected. The milk vendor then alerted the Sirumugai police about the incident. Upon investigation, the police traced the counterfeit note back to Logesh’s aunt, who had unknowingly used it for the transaction.
