evidence: Don’t believe such rumours. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has clarified that currency notes with scribbles are legal tender. "There is no RBI instruction to anyone not to accept any currency note with scribbling on it even though we do, from time to time, keep appealing to people not to write/staple/fold currency notes as these things lessen the life of currency notes," the central bank said in an email to Mint. While scribbled-on notes continue to be legal tender, there are exceptions. According to a July 2013 RBI notification, any note with slogans and messages of a political nature cease to be legal tender. So, refrain from pouring your heart out on currency notes. In 2014 too, the RBI had issued circular asking people not to heed rumours and to go on using the scribbled notes.