The waiter, after realising that the note was not genuine, filed a complaint with the railway police when the train arrived at Manmad. A search of James, revealed two currency notes of Rs 500 denomination and two of Rs 100 denomination. The police registered a case against him and produced him in a court, which remanded him to police custody for a week.

James, who is a student of criminology at an institute in Dharwad, reportedly told the police that he had received the notes in Delhi. Meanwhile a tea-stall owner was fined Rs 300 for possessing plastic carrybags, which have been banned by the NashikMunicipal Corporation. A civic squad found him with 20 carrybags of less than 20 microns thickness.