'Maybe don't put it in water?': SC on Rs 2,000 note bleeding

November 18, 2016 12:33

NDTV reports: Why would you do that was the Supreme Court's withering response today to a lawyer who complained that the new Rs. 2,000 note bleeds colour when it's wet.

"Well, don't put notes in water," was Chief Justice TS Thakur's advice to the lawyer, ML Sharma, who is among a group of petitioners who have asked the top court to cancel the ban on Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 notes announced a little over a week ago by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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