Fuelled by an unprecedented cash crunch after the government spiked high-value currency notes, some banks are receiving soiled, smelly Rs100 notes for recirculation.

Many customers in Delhi complained to IANS that they received mouldy notes, some of which smelt 'very bad'.

A bank manager, who asked not to be named, told IANS, "The RBI is sending old 100 rupee notes stored for years but not destroyed, These notessmell. We are spraying them with perfumes and insecticides before disbursing them."

The manager said Rs 100 notes worth millions of rupees have been recirculated to narrow down the huge demand-supply gap in cash after the November8 demonetisation of 500 and 1,000 rupee notes -- which accounted for 86% of the currency in circulation by value.

Usually, such soiled notes are returned to banks by the customers and they finally end up in RBI offices where they are shredded and ferried todumping sites.

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