New Delhi, December 27: Guess who comes to the ‘rescue’ of forensic scientists in identifying the genuineness of Indian currency notes? It is Mahatma Gandhi.
The portrait of the Father of Nation in the denominations of rupees 1,000, 500 and 100 has not been successfully forged by masterminds of counterfeit notes till date. And it is helping the scientist in identifying whether a currency note is genuine or fake.
“We are often encountered with the task of examination of huge fake currency notes. We do it with all security features available in the literature and manuals. But we have found that the features of the portrait of Mahatma Gandhi in the denominations of rupees 1,000, 500 and 100 varied in a genuine and a fake currency note,” Director of Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Kolkata, C N Bhattacharya, said.
Gandhiji’s portrait exist in currency notes of seven denominations i.e.
–PTI