Bhopal: Two persons were arrested on Sunday for printing fake notes of Rs 2,000 denomination in Burhar town under Shahdol district of Madhya Pradesh, police said.

The accused, Ravi Gupta and Amit Rai, scanned the new Rs 2,000 notes and took out coloured photocopies.

“Gupta used the fake notes at a petrol pump. Upon suspicion, the petrol pump workers informed the police,” Burhar police station in-charge Prafull Rai told IANS.

Rai added that the accused have been arrested and the photocopy machine has been confiscated.

During police interrogation, the two revealed that they had made only one photocopy.

-IANS