evidence: It is not unusual to see colour-stained notes after Holi. Not just colour, you may have come across scribbled notes, notes with dirt settled on them, limpness, corner folds, tears, holes, stains, graffiti, crumples, de-colouration, folds and repair. There are talks of such notes being invalid for legal tender. Many believe in such rumours and do not use the note or exchange it for a lower value currency. At times, bank officials too, refuse to accept such notes, validating the rumour. However, as per the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), if a note is genuine and its features are not fully obliterated, banks have to accept such notes. As part of the clean note policy, the apex bank has asked all other banks to not staple bank notes, to tender soiled notes to the RBI in unstapled condition, to use bands instead of staple pins, to issue only clean notes, to open select currency chest branches on Sundays to provide exchange facility to public all over the country, to provide unrestricted facility for exchange of soiled and mutilated notes to the public. However, citizens must not tamper with a note owing to RBI’S assurance. The RBI said it will not accept certain scribbling on the note, for instance, all bank notes with religious or political slogans are banned.