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8. PW-3 Prakash Choudhary stated that he was posted as Branch Manager in SBI, Akaltara. On the date of incident, the accused Rohit had come to deposit money in two account holders namely Jatashankar and Krapashankar and total 161 notes were found counterfeit, upon which notes were dissolved in water solution, upon which their colour got faded, thereafter the matter was reported the police station concerned and FIR was registered, which is attached in ST No.61/2006. The copy of this FIR is Ex- P/2 and he admitted his signatures on A to A part and B to B part of the same. The written complaint is also attached along with ST No.61/2006. The police seized all forged currency notes and prepared seizure memo (Ex-P/1). The written complaint of FIR is Ex-P/3. He admitted his signatures on A to A part of the same. The copy of original FIR is attached in ST No.61/06. He further stated that the accused Jatashankar in another case is the account holder in his bank and in his account the accused Rohit had come to deposit money. The bank slips are Ex-P/4 & P/5 and he admitted his signatures on A to A part of the same. The bank account of Jatashankar is mentioned in Ex-P/6 which is the part of ST No.61/2006. In the cross-examination he stated that earlier also the accused Rohit used to come to the bank and he recognized him but he did not come to meet him on the date of incident and went to cashier to deposit money.

9. PW-4 Goverdhan Lal Dewangan, Assistant Manager SBI, Akaltara stated that the accused Rohit had come to deposit Rs.50,000/- and Rs.1,51,000/- through two vouchers in the account of accused Jatashankar, who was absconding. When they tried to count the notes, they found that notes are counterfeit and the same were dissolved in water solution, upon which colour of the notes got faded, thereafter matter was reported to Branch Manager Prakash Chand Choudhary and thereafter notes were counted on machine and total 161 counterfeit notes were found, thereafter matter was reported to police station. In the cross-examination, he admitted that the accused Rohit had come to bank. He denied this suggestion that bank employees had deliberately considered the forged notes as brought by accused Rohit.