The Reserve Bank of India has clarified that none of its officials has been arrested by the CBI at the Bank Note Press in Dewas, Madhya Pradesh. The RBI has also clarified that the said unit is not under the control of the RBI.
In a statement, the RBI has stated that it has been reported in a section of the media that an RBI officer has been arrested by CISF for stealing printed currency at the RBI printing facility at Dewas. However, the Bank Note Press (BNP), Dewas is a unit of the Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India ltd (SPMCIl), which is not under the control of the RBI, it said.
Further, RBI "does not have any official placed" with BNP, Dewas, it said. "The reports, thus, are not based on facts. RBI regrets to note that the facts were not verified before publishing the news reports," it added.