
Demonetisation had banned old large notes in a bid to stop black money and corruption.
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Supreme Court had asked centre to consider for one last window
Allow genuine cases to turn in banned notes: Supreme Court
Can't make exceptions, will defeat point of notes ban: centre
Earlier this month, the top court had asked the centre to consider a final window to benefit those with a genuine reason for not turning in the outlawed notes by the end of last year, the deadline that was set by the RBI after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's shock announcement on demonetisation.
Different citizens' appeals were clubbed together by the Supreme Court - they included a woman who said she could not make it to a ban because she was delivering a baby and another who said her family was coping with a death in the family.

Demonetisation: The government issued new notes to replace the old ones.
But the government complained today of "the gross misuse or abuse" of previous extensions or exceptions that allowed old notes to be used to book railway tickets or at petrol pumps among others. Allowing a new opportunity to deposit the banned notes would result in "any number of benami transactions" and make it difficult for departments to distinguish "genuine cases from bogus ones", the centre warned.

People queued up in front of banks to deposit their old notes after demonetisation was announced.
The PM said the short notice was vital to ensure that black money holders were deprived of the opportunity to launder their money. However, the RBI says it has still not determined the exact figure of the returned notes. By the end of December, banks had received virtually all the currency notes that had been banned - which implied that no black money had been destroyed. Rs 15.5 lakh crore was the value of the outlawed currency - about Rs 15 lakh crore was accounted for in deposits by the end of 2016, said several reports.
The last official estimate from the RBI, shared in mid-December, pegged the returned notes at Rs 12.5 lakh crore.
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