Once in India I took a taxi to the train station. I paid the driver and went inside to catch my train. Ten minutes later while waiting in the station, the cab

Once in India I took a taxi to the train station. I paid the driver and went inside to catch my train. Ten minutes later while waiting in the station, the cab driver found me and made me replace a bill that he claimed I had given him that had a hole in it. He considered it worthless. Relatedly, it seems that stapling money is a pretty common way to organize bills there. I'm not sure how the two facts coincide.