Ghaziabad: Woman writes to PMO after finding nearly Rs 100 crore in her Jan Dhan account
Sheetal Yadav maintains a Jan-Dhan account in SBI's Sharda road branch. On December 18, she went to draw money from the ATM of ICICI bank near their house and was shocked to see that her account balance stood at Rs 99,99,99,394.
In Short
- Sheetal went to draw money from an ICICI bank ATM and saw Rs 99,99,99,394 in her account.
- SBI bank officials whom she approached to find out what was wrong paid her no attention.
- Sheetal and husband Ziledar Singh survive on a meagre income and were shocked to see this amount.
Shocked to find nearly Rs 100 crore in her Jan-Dhan account in a Meerut branch of a state-run bank, a woman in Ghaziabad on Monday sought the PMO's intervention after bank officials did not attend to her complaint and kept asking her to come some other time.
In the complaint to the PMO, sent by her husband Ziledar Singh, Sheetal Yadav said she maintained a Jan-Dhan account in the Sharda road branch of the State Bank of India (SBI).
On December 18, she went to draw money from the ATM of ICICI bank near their house and was shocked to see that her account stood at Rs 99,99,99,394.
SHEETAL RECHECKED ACCOUNT BALANCE
Unable to believe it, she said she asked the person standing next to her in the queue to check it and he confirmed the same amount. She went to another ATM of YES bank nearby and found the same balance.
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She continued to visit her bank for two days but the staff did not pay heed to her complaint and asked her to come another day when the branch manager would assist her rectify the matter. When she went to the bank again a few days later, she was sent back on some other pretext.
Singh, who works in a transformer manufacturing company, said that his wife, who works in the packaging department of a factory, draws a salary of Rs 5,000 per month. Singh said his own salary was too meagre to even dream of such a hefty amount being credited to their accounts, adding that the duo was shocked to see the sum.
BANK STAFF'S ATTITUDE FRUSTRATING
Frustrated over the local bank staff's attitude, Singh said he asked an educated person to send a mail to the PMO.
"We sent a mail on December 26 to the PMO to help us find out from where about Rs 100 crore came into the account in which maximum limit of deposit is restricted to Rs 50,000 only," he said, showing ATM slips and bank passbook to the media.
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No bank employee was available for comment.