By Tim Binnall
Police in India arrested a man who concocted a rather strange scheme to transform a large sum of demonetized money into viable cash by way of a witch doctor, a rooster, and a djinn. According to a local media report, the bizarre case actually began all the way back in 2016 when sanitation worker Sultan Karosia stumbled upon a bag containing a whopping 53 bundles of bank notes that had recently been taken out of circulation and, thus, were no longer of any value. Unable to part with the worthless bills, he subsequently stashed the cash in his home for the next seven years until earlier this month when a friend told him about a sorcerer who could 'revive' the money.
Sensing the opportunity to make a small fortune from the bank notes that he had found so long ago, Karosia contacted the witch doctor, who told him that he could pull off the tricky maneuver by way of a ritual wherein the mystic somehow acquires the "magical powers of a djinn." Having struck a deal, the sanitation worker was instructed to meet the sorcerer in a forest with the cash as well as a rooster, which is apparently the key ingredient in the mysterious spell. Unfortunately for Karosia, the plan quickly fell apart when authorities somehow got word of his misadventure and stopped his car while en route to the meeting.
Upon being questioned by police, the sanitation worker explained his fantastic financial plan and was then promptly arrested for what one presumes was the unlawful possession of thousands of discontinued bank notes. Meanwhile, when police went looking for the witch doctor in the forest, as so often happens when sorcerers run afoul of the law, he was nowhere to be found. And, for those keeping score at home, the rooster wound up faring far better than the man who brought it to be sacrificed as it was seized by authorities moments before it would have been the centerpiece of the sorcerer's djinn-conjuring ritual.