They withdrew the cash from Shivpuri Road SBI branch.
Farmers form Madhya Pradesh’s Sheopur district received newly printed Rs 2,000 notes without the image of Mahatma Gandhi from the local State Bank of India branch.
“I withdrew Rs 6,000. The cashier gave me three notes of Rs 2,000. When I reached home, my son told me that Gandhiji’s picture was missing in the banknote. My son told me it was fake,” Laxman Meena, a farmer from Bichugaanvdi village told to Hindustan Times.
Meena said he immediately went to the bank but bank officials were reluctant to take any action.
Soon, another farmer Gurmeet Singh from Kadukheda village also came to bank with four notes without Mahatma Gandhi’s image.
The officials then assured the farmers that it could be a printing error and that the notes were genuine.
“The incident took place at Shivpuri Road branch of SBI. The notes were not counterfeit, but probably there was some printing error. They were taken back as it (the error) was detected,” Times of India quoted Sheopur district manager of SBI, Akash Shrivastav.
“It is not fake currency, it is a misprint. We have sent it for probe,” said SBI officer RK Jain.