OpIndia
2 April 2020
Nasik police arrest Muslim man after video of him
wiping his face with currency note and saying “Coronavirus is Allah’s
punishment to you” went viral on social media
The Nasik [Nashik] rural police have taken to Twitter
to inform that a Muslim man, whose video of licking and wiping nose with a
bunch of currency notes and calling Coronavirus a punishment by Allah was doing
rounds on social media, has now been identified and is in police custody. […]
https://www.hindustantimes.com/lucknow/lucknow-two-currency-notes-cause-a-scare-in-mahanagar/story-6OqHcsJzXHz2pl6NP6G2YO.html
Hindustan
Times
10
April 2020
Lucknow: Two
currency notes cause a scare in Mahanagar
Two
currency notes of Rs 500 denomination lying on the road scared people in Paper
Mill colony on Thursday night. Locals informed the police and later cops seized
the currency notes using proper protection due to corona fear. The locals told
policemen that these notes were deliberately thrown to spread Sars-Cov-2. […]
OpIndia
12 April 2020
Coronavirus scare: Villagers near Aligarh panic after
2 Bikers throw five ₹100 currency notes on the road after spitting on them
On Sunday, two bike-borne miscreants dumped five currency
notes of ₹100 near the village of Bijhera in Tehsil Iglas in Aligarh, after
they reportedly spit on them. The incident had triggered a state of panic among
the villagers who dubbed their action as a deliberate attempt to spread the
Wuhan Coronavirus infection. […]
India Today
13 April 2020
Coronavirus: Two held for spitting on currency notes
outside dairy shop in Mohali
Two men were arrested for allegedly spitting on
currency notes before buying dairy products from a shop in Kharar, Mohali. The
incident took place on Sunday evening when two men, both residents of Bihar,
purchased dairy products and spit on currency notes before handing them over to
the shopkeeper. […]
The Indian Express
16 April 2020
Amid coronavirus outbreak, unclaimed
currency notes create panic in Indore
Hours after unclaimed currency notes spread
panic in a locality, the Indore police are investigating whether it was an act
of mischief or someone dropped them accidentally. On Thursday noon, the police
were alerted about notes lying on Khatipura road under Heera Nagar Police
Station. A police team carefully picked up each of the 25-odd notes and
sanitised them. In-charge of Hiranagar Police Station Rajeev Bhadoria admitted
that the police did not want to take any chance given the rumours doing the
rounds of social media. Rumors stating notes infected with the coronavirus are
being deliberately strewn to spread the disease further. The total value of the
currency notes was just under Rs 6500. […]
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[It is a short step from rumors of contaminated money
found on the ground and government helicopters helpfully dropping money to
rumors of helicopters deliberately dropping contaminated money.]
India TV News
16 April 2020
FACT CHECK: Is govt dropping money from
helicopters in every town?
[…] In a recent claim, it was said that the
government would drop money from helicopters. The claim comes at a sensitive
time when the nation is also facing a grappling economic situation arising due
to the coronavirus crisis. […]
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Times of India
17 April 2020
Cash strewn on road sparks jitters in corona-hit
Indore
INDORE: Currency notes found scattered in Khatipura
area of Covid-hit Indore gave residents a scare on Thursday. Police confiscated
the notes with extreme caution and are examining CCTV footage to identify who
left them around and why. Jittery residents claimed that the currency notes
were thrown from a car, but police are yet to confirm this. […]
BOOM [India]
18 April 2020
Video Of Currency Notes Found In Indore Viral With
False Communal Spin
A video showing policemen picking up currency notes
lying on the road in Indore is being shared with a communal spin that they were
thrown on purpose to spread Coronavirus. Indore police told BOOM that the currency was
not thrown intentionally and has been claimed by a delivery person who said the
money had fallen from his pocket while cycling. […]
New Indian Express
18 April 2020
COVID-19 scare: People burn currency note found on road
in Mysuru
MYSURU: Is that a banknote lying on the road? Set it
on fire! This is what happened at Nazarbad in Mysuru where people panicked
after they found a Rs 100 note lying on the road. Fearing that it was infected
with the deadly coronavirus, they first poured a sanitiser on it before
lighting it up. […]
Times of India
19 April 2020
Surat: Currency notes on footpath give a scare!
SURAT: A couple of currency notes totalling Rs 800
lying on a footpath in Chandi Chowk area of Piplod created a Covid-19 scare in
the city on Friday. Some people alleged the currency notes were thrown by a
person after he applied his saliva and sweat on them. Police took help of a team
of Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) to collect the notes in a bag meant for
biomedical waste. The entire area was sanitized and vegetables from a nearby shop
disposed of to prevent any chance of infection. […]
Khabarhub [Nepal]
18 April 2020
One out of two women who threw money in streets test
corona positive
JANAKPURDHAM: One of the two women who had run away
throwing money in the streets at Janakpurdham-4, Mahabir Chowk is found
coronavirus positive in a rapid test conducted on Saturday. […] According to SP
Jaya Raj Sapkota, the spokesperson at the Provincial Police Office, the two had
spat on 10, 20 and 100 rupee notes and thrown the money in the streets. […]
Khabarhub [Nepal]
19 April 2020
Women arrested for distributing bank notes tested
negative for COVID-19
JANAKPURDHAM: The swab tests of two women who were
arrested on charge of spreading COVID-19 by scattering the bank notes on the
road in Janakpur were tested negative for the coronavirus. After their arrest,
they were tested via PCR in Janakpur State Hospital and were found negative for
coronavirus on Sunday. […]
News Track Live [India]
19 April 2020
People do not pick 500 rupees note lying on the road
due to fear of corona
On Sunday morning near Dharampur mandi of Dehradun,
there was panic among the people after seeing the notes scattered on the road.
But there is so much panic among people that Corona did not even go so far to
pick them up. Later, the police picked up the money. The incident took place
between Dharampur Mandi and the Income Tax Tower. People who came out to buy
goods there were seen four notes of five hundred rupees and one hundred rupee
notes lying on the road. Someone made a video of the incident and posted it on
social media. […]
Star of Mysore [India]
23 April 2020
Coins strewn on road sparks jitters in Corona-hit
Mysuru
Mysore/Mysuru: Coins found scattered in Boti Bazaar
area of COVID-hit Mysuru gave traders a scare yesterday. Jittery traders
claimed that the coins were thrown to spread the killer virus. The situation
was, however, diffused by the Police and Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) staff. In
normal circumstances, perhaps people would not hesitate to pick up coins strewn
on the road. But in times of COVID-19, people may not take the risk of doing
that. […]
Bangalore Mirror [India]
24 April 2020
Coins lying on the road create panic in Mysuru
OpIndia
24 April 2020
Coronavirus scare at Rajasthan village after several
Rs 500 currency notes found thrown at a villager’s house
Yet another shocking incident of currency notes being
thrown with a suspected intention to propagate the infection of Wuhan
coronavirus has come into notice. The incident took place in village Sarasar of
Rajasthan when an unidentified person threw currency notes of Rupees 500 at the
residence of one Ghadseiram. Some of the notes were torn. A total amount of
thirteen thousand five hundred was thrown at his house. […]
In another incident, currency notes were found on the
roadside near a cement factory in the industrial area of Sujangarh, Rajasthan.
Factory Director Anand Bagda informed the police about this. After that
Sub-inspector, Dilip Singh, and the sanitization team personnel from the
Municipal corporation reached the spot. Precautions were taken according to
coronavirus protocol. The team sprayed sanitizer all over the area. After that,
the police picked up the notes lying on the ground between the road and the
factory. […]
Alt News [India]
27 April 2020
Disabled Muslim man hounded for accidentally dropping
currency, accused of spreading coronavirus
A CCTV footage showing a Muslim man in a petrol pump
reaching for his pocket to make a payment and dropping something on the ground
is massively viral on social media. Certain users have speculated that the man
intentionally dropped currency notes to spread coronavirus infection. […] [According
to police, the driver had a paralyzed hand, “which is why the notes fell out of
his hand.”]
Times of India
3 May 2020
Haryana: Money on ground, panic in Kaithal
KAITHAL: Panic gripped Kaithal on Saturday after some
miscreants threw some currency notes in the denomination of Rs 500 and fled
from the spot. […]
India Today
6 May 2020
Blessing in Covid disguise: Bihar auto driver finds
lost Rs 20,000 untouched as locals fall prey to fake news
What will happen if you drop thousands of rupees in
Indian currency on the road? Usually, the money will be gone even before you
can say the amount you lost. But, in these times of Covid-19 crisis, the
currency notes are only likely to trigger a scare about the spread of the
infection and people are unlikely to touch it. That’s exactly what happened in
Bihar where the fear of Covid-19 saved Rs 20,500 of one Gajendra Shah, an
auto-driver in Kopa village of Saharsa district. […]
Times of India
10 May 2020
Strewn currency notes create panic in MP's Chhatarpur
district
BHOPAL: Quite a sensation was created in Harpalpur
town of Chattarpur, after currency notes were found scattered there on some
road trisections on Saturday. These new Rs 20 denomination notes were later
picked up by the cops, who immediately started the investigations. […] A
resident informed the police. “I had read in newspapers that in some places
where positive cases of coronavirus were found, people were creating mischief
by throwing infected currency notes to further spread the virus,” the resident
told the cops. By the time cops reached the spot, panic had already gripped the
small market place and many shop keepers had pulled down their shutters. […]
The Hitavada [India]
11 May 2020
Unclaimed currency notes create sensation in Durg
Durg -- Unclaimed currency notes lying in Kadambari
Nagar area created sensation in locality. The residents soon gave information
to their Ward Corporator, who alerted the police, which rushed to the spot and
seized the currency notes. Meanwhile, amid the coronavirus outbreak, the
currency notes having value under Rs 10,000 created sensation in the area and
the residents of the locality were panicked a lot. It remained unknown that
whether it was an act of mischief or someone lost the money accidentally. […]
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