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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
National
Kunal Purohit

India top court says demonetisation was legal, victims disagree

Khushnuma Begum, whose husband Mujammil Khan died in a queue outside an ATM, at her unpainted house in Kasganj, Uttar Pradesh, India [Qutub Alam/Al Jazeera]

Mumbai, India – In the hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a shock announcement making 86 percent of India’s currency notes invalid on November 8, 2016, Mujammil Khan’s life changed at a pace he could not keep up with.

Overnight, Khan’s livelihood as an autorickshaw driver in Uttar Pradesh’s Kasganj district dried up as people had no money to pay him, leaving him struggling to feed his wife and four children, the youngest being only four.

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