evidence: As a result of the above instructions of the Reserve Bank of India/RBI to the heads of the banks in India, and the subsequent passing of the message by the managements of the banks to their branches advising their staff handling cash not to write/scribble on the currency notes, and perhaps by further passing by of the message by the bank staff to their customers and the public tendering cash for depositing with them, a ‘rumour’ has been spread that the currency notes with writings/scribbling on them will be invalid w.e.f.1st January 2014. [...] The Reserve Bank of India has clarified that no instructions had been issued on non-acceptance or invalidation of scribbled currency notes, and confirmed that instructions had been given by RBI to the banks/bank-staff not to write/scribble on the currency notes. [...] It is the opinion of the public and experts that, unless and until the Reserve Bank of India announces and warns the public that the currency notes with scribblings and writings should be exchanged at/deposited into banks, within a stipulated time limit and if necessary such notes would be declared as invalid, their instructions to the bank staff not to write/scribble on the notes would result in such a situation only.