Court convicts man of possessing fake Rs 100 notes

A man has been held guilty by a Delhi court for using a fake Rs 100 note to purchase a liquor bottle and possessing 56 more notes of the same denomination.
The court convicted the man from Haryana of the offences of possessing and using fake currency notes under the IPC and rejected his contention that the currency was planted on him.
"No motive can be attributed to police constable... to implicate the accused falsely by plantingfakecurrencynote uponhim," Additional Sessions Judge A K Kuhar said.
The court is yet to pronounce the quantum of sentence to Fazal, who has been held guilty for the offences under sections 489 B (using as genuine, forged or counterfeit currency notes) and 489C (possession of forged or counterfeit currency notes) of the IPC.

The judge, while convicting him, relied on the testimony of the liquor shop vendor that Fazal, a Faridabad resident, purchased liquor in exchange of a fake Rs 100 note on October 21, 2012, and said it "shows the accused had the knowledge that he was carrying fake currency notes."
The court noted that the accused, in his statement recorded under the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), had totally denied the allegations and claimed he was falsely implicated.
It, however, rejected his claim and said, "Nothinghas surfacedonrecord toevensuggest that the police officials were inimical towards the accused and wanted toframehim inthecase.