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Printing error? Gandhi image missing from 'genuine' Rs 2,000 notes in MP

Currency presses have been working 24x7 to produce a year's output in just 5 months

Mahatma Gandhi missing, Rs 2000
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Genuine Rs 2,000 notes without Mahatma Gandhi's image printed on them. Photo: ANI

BS Web Team New Delhi
The cash crunch has had an unlikely casualty; Mahatma Gandhi's likeness on a batch of the new Rs 2,000 notes. The Times of India reported on Thursday that farmers in a village situated in Madhya Pradesh have received newly printed Rs 2,000 notes without the Bapu's image printed on them and they are not fake.

According to the national daily, at first the farmers thought that the notes were counterfeit but bank officials soon dispelled any such doubts and declared them "genuine". The officials cited a "printing error" as the cause behind the anomaly. Further, citing bank