Fake notes in circulation in Malenadu
Small scale traders become soft target
Chikkamagaluru: As the fake notes are in circulation in Malenadu, fraudsters are targeting innocent traders and poor hawkers by paying fake notes of Rs. 500 against purchase of goods from them.
One such incident was reported near Heruru village in Koppa taluk on Saturday night.
A handicapped man had a coffee and tea shop in a make shift on the roadside of Chikkamagaluru-Sringeri highway near Herur village. When his wife and daughter were closing the shop on Saturday night, two unidentified persons approached them. The men purchased cigarette and other items worth Rs 400 and gave a note of Rs. 500.
The shop owner told Vartha Bharati that his daughter compared the 500 note with the one she already had. She then realised that the note given by the customer was fake. When she called the men to inform them that their note was fake, they did not pay heed to her call and escaped from there.
The innocent hawker has submitted the fake note at Balehonnur police station on Sunday.
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Mercury plunges in Kashmir after brief respite, Shopian freezes at minus 6.4 deg C
Srinagar (PTI): Night temperatures in Kashmir dropped several degrees below the freezing point, even as a thick layer of fog engulfed parts of the valley, with Srinagar recording a low of minus 4.1 degrees Celsius, officials said on Saturday.
Shopian was the coldest recorded place in Jammu and Kashmir as the mercury there settled at a low of minus 6.4 degrees Celsius, they said.
The mercury had on Thursday night settled above the freezing point at most places in the valley, providing huge relief to the residents from the biting cold conditions.
However, temperatures dropped across Kashmir on Friday night, bringing back the freezing cold, the officials said.
On the Friday night, the minimum temperature in Srinagar -- the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir -- settled at minus 4.1 degrees Celsius, a sharp drop from 0.4 degrees Celsius the previous night, the officials said.
The gateway town to the valley, Qazigund, recorded a low of minus 4.2 degrees Celsius, while the mercury settled at minus 3.5 degrees Celsius in north Kashmir's Kupwara, and minus 0.2 degrees Celsius in south Kashmir's Kokernag, the officials said.
Pahalgam recorded a low of minus 4.4 degrees Celsius, while Gulmarg lodged minus 2.6 degrees Celsius and Konibal town in Pulwama district recorded minus 5.2 degrees Celsius, they said.
The meteorological department said the weather would remain generally cloudy but dry on December 6-7, and a brief spell of light snowfall at isolated places in the higher reaches of north and central Kashmir is likely on December 8.
