From Infants To ?96 Year Olds, Here Are The 47 People Who Have Died Due To Demonetisation

It was, barring the US election excitement, an ordinary Tuesday night that set off India's biggest financial earthquake in recent memory. ?PM Modi took to the airwaves to tell India that 500 and 1000 Rupee notes weren't legal tenders in a few hours. ?In the days after, Modi's move has divided public opinion, but it has also triggered deaths as lakhs of people were forced to stand in long lines so they could exchange, or get currency notes to buy essentials.?

1. Palamu, Jharkhand

70-plus Ram Chandra Paswan who died after standing in a long queue after "waiting for hours" a government official said.

2. Ballia, Uttar Pradesh

Distressed over not being able to exchange old currency notes for the "tilak" ceremony of his daughter, a 40-year-old man died in Ballia after suffering a heart attack, his family members claimed on Wednesday.

3. Rajgurunagar, Pune
A "messenger" of the State Bank of India's Rajgurunagar branch suffered a massive heart attack on Wednesday in duty hours and died. A messenger, in banking parlance, typically deposits vouchers and segregates notes among other things. "A messenger's job is a high-pressure job. In our branch, we cannot operate without him," said an official of another SBI branch.

4. Nanded, Maharashtra
60 year old Digambar Kasbe collapsed after standing for hours in a bank queue.
5. Mohammadganj, Jharkhand
Ramchandra Paswan died due to suffocation as he was standing in a crushing queue for more than four hours to exchange his old currency notes at a State Bank of India branch in Mohammadganj, Palamau district, on Wednesday. When he collapsed, he was taken to a hospital where doctors declared him dead.

6. Bokaro district, Jharkhand
20-year-old Lavkush died on Tuesday night as the economic condition of the family was not good and his father, a daily wage worker, was unable to get work due to demonetisation, which has caused trash cash and cash crunch.
7. Bokaro district, Jharkhand

70-year-old Lakshmi died of shock over the death of her 20-year-old grandson Lavkush.

8. Siddipet district, Telangana
45-year-old farmer Balaiah allegedly mixed pesticide in chicken curry and chapatis, which he ate at their residence in Dharmaram village, police said. He was reportedly worried over "fall" in the rate of his land in the wake of demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes.

9. Siddipet district, Telangana
Balaiah's shared his last meal with his father, 65-year-old Galaiah, wife Lakshmi and son Prashant, a B.Tech student. ?The farmer had taken loans and in view of the sudden fall in the market rates of land he got worried about how to pay back the debts and discussed the same with his father last night before resorting to the extreme step, he said quoting the complaint lodged by the 16-year-old daughter of the deceased.

10. Old Delhi, NCR
48-year-old Saud Ur Rehman, an Old Delhi resident died after he suffered a heart attack while standing in line for over eight hours to exchange now-defunct notes for new ones at a queue outside a bank in Lal Kuan. He was rushed to Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital where he died.????????
11. Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
56-year-old Khaliq Hasan collapsed and died in a bank queue, and his family blamed stress over to demonetisation.
12. Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh
Sumit, a class 12th student, a 17-year-old boy allegedly committed suicide over not possessing smaller denomination notes

13. Secunderabad, Andhra Bank branch
Lakshminarayana, A 70-year-old man died while standing in a queue outside a bank in Andhra Pradesh. He was rushed to a hospital where doctors declared him dead due to cardiac arrest. A resident of Railway Colony in Secunderabad, he had gone to deposit Rs.1.7 lakh in scrapped currency notes of Rs 500 and 1,000.

14. Gola Kuan, Meerut
60-year-old Aziz Ansari collapsed and died while standing in a queue at a bank branch. His family claimed that this was the third day that Ansari had been waiting at the bank to get his notes exchanged.
15. Surat, Gujarat

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Shekih Chanda Khatun, the 50-year-old mother of three committed suicide in stress as provision and kirana shops refused to accept her demonetized Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes.
16. Raigarh, Chattisgarh
A 45-year-old farmer allegedly committed suicide as he was apparently upset over not being able to get his high-denomination notes exchanged for fresh ones due to serpentine queues in banks. The farmer Ravi Pradhan's wife Pushplata claimed that he was in urgent need of money to help their two sons who were in Tamil Nadu, but was facing inconvenience after old high currency (Rs 500 and Rs 1,000) notes were banned. "Pradhan's body was found hanging at his house in Maharajpur village under Saria development block on November 12 a night," Sarangarh Sub-Divisional Officer of Police (SDOP) Junas Bada said.

17. Surendranagar district, ?Gujarat
A 69-year-old man, who was standing in a queue to exchange demonetised currency notes in Limbdi town of Surendranagar district in Gujarat, died due to a heart attack, police said. Mansukh Darji, the senior citizen, was standing in a queue outside a Bank of India branch in Limbdi when he suddenly collapsed due to a heart attack, they added
18. Govandi, Maharashtra

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A newborn infant boy died a day after being denied treatment by Jeevan Jyot Hospital and Nursing Home in Govandi because his parents wanted to pay a part of the deposit in Rs 500 currency notes, which ceased to be legal tender starting Tuesday midnight.

19. Bhayander, Maharashtra
A senior citizen standing in a queue outside a co-operative bank into exchange defunct currency reportedly collapsed after suffering a cardiac stroke. Deepak Shah (60), a resident of Shreepal Building, Devchand Nagar, Bhayander (west) went to the Bassein Catholic Co-operative Bank to exchange Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes. As he stood in the queue at around 7 am, he complained of pain in the chest and collapsed on the road. A few men waiting in the queue took him to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead.
20. Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh

Acute shortage of currency has claimed the life of an 18-month-old girl after a hospital refused to accept the demonetized Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes.

21. Mainpuri, Agra
A year old infant, Kush, died after reportedly being denied treatment by a local private doctor as his parent didn't have money to pay for his treatment, thanks to demonetization of the Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes.
22. Sagar, Madhya Pradesh
A 69-year-old retired man died after suffering a heart attack while standing in a queue for the exchange of demonetised currency notes outside a bank, police said. "We got the information that an old man (Vinay Kumar Pandey) suffered a heart attack while he was standing in a queue outside a bank to exchange his demonetised notes. He was rushed to a private hospital where he died later during treatment," Police Inspector V S Chauhan said.

23. Udupi, Mangalore
A 96-year-old man died of a spike in blood pressure on Saturday at a bank in Ajekar, Udupi district, where he had gone to get his Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes exchanged. While waiting in line, he collapsed, and the people at the bank rushed him to the Primary Health Centre. He was subsequently shifted to a private hospital in Karkala, where the doctors declared him 'dead on arrival'.

24. Tarapur, Gujarat
A 47-year-old farmer on Saturday died after suffering a heart attack while he was standing in a queue for more than two hours outside a bank at Tarapur town in the district to exchange demonetised currency notes, police said. "Barkat Sheikh died due to a heart attack when he was standing in a queue at the Corporation Bank branch to exchange his demonetised notes," Tarapur police inspector K C Rathwa said.
25. Belur, Karnataka
A man's wife fell from her 10th-floor apartment following a spat between the husband and wife following her inability to stand in an ATM queue.
26. Ratibad locality, Bhopal
A 45-year-old State Bank of India cashier at the Neelbad died of a heart attack. After collapsing in the bank, he was taken to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead on arrival.

27. Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh
Immediately after PM Modi informed the nation of demonetisation of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 notes on national TV, a businessman began feeling chest pain. He succumbed to a heart attack that followed.

28. Mulund, Maharashtra
Vishwas Vartak, a retired 72-year-old public works department (PWD) employee from a massive heart attack outside the State Bank of India at Hari Om Nagar.
29. Mahabubabad, Telangana
Fearing that she would lose Rs 54 lakh on account of the demonetization of big currency notes, a woman in the district committed suicide.?Kandukuri Vinoda, 55, hanged herself at her house in Shenagapauram on Thursday while her husband and son were asleep. A few days ago, the family had sold their 12-acre agricultural land for Rs 56.40 lakh to meet expenses for the treatment of Vinoda's ailing husband.

30. Thalassery, Kerala
50-year-old KK Unni died after falling from a building which housed a bank he had visited to deposit cash in Rs.1,000 and Rs.500 denominations. Police say he was depressed after sudden demonetisation as he had recently taken a loan.

31. Kaimur district, Bihar
Ram Awadh Sah, the father of a daughter to be married, was so stressed out by the uncertainty of not knowing whether the bridegroom's parents would accept the promised dowry of Rs 35,000 in scrapped notes that he had a massive stroke. When his wife rushed him to the nearest hospital, the treatment was delayed because the doctors told her they could not accept the scrapped 500 and 1,000-rupee notes and Sah collapsed and died.

33. Rajgurunagar, Pune-Nashik Highway

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53-year-old a bank peon Tukaram Genu Tanpure succumbed to a massive cardiac arrest at an SBI branch. Tanpure had reportedly complained of chest pains after the branch was crowded, stressing out bank employees.
34. Ratlam district, Madhya Pradesh
23-year-old Prajapat, standing in a queue at the bank to exchange old currency notes died of cardiac arrest after he was unable to find additional documentation to complete the process. He died while rushing home from the bank to get his Aadhar card, ID proof for the transaction. Prajapat needed to exchange old Rs. 500 currency notes to buy essential goods for his family.

35. Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh
70-year-old farmer Halke Lodhi allegedly committed suicide after being unable to get money from a bank for his crops. "Had he got money from the bank in exchange of his old notes, he would not have committed suicide," Bhupendra Lodhi, a relative of the deceased farmer Halke Lodhi told the Hindustan Times.

36. Jalaun, Uttar Pradesh
70-year-old Raghunath Verma died after waiting outside a bank in Jalaun, 200 km from Kanpur. He was waiting in line for 8 hours to withdraw money for his daughter's wedding.

37. Captainganj tehsil, Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh?
40-year-old washerwoman Tirtharaji died of shock after learning that her two 1,000 Rupee notes would not be accepted by banks.

38. Mahua Mafi village, Uttar Pradesh
An 8-year-old died after her father could not buy use his 1000 Rupee note to buy petrol, to drive her to medical treatment.

39. Pali, Rajasthan

Champalal Meghwal, a father lost his first-born after ambulances refused to accept currency notes to take his newborn to the hospital.
40. Shamli district, Uttar Pradesh
A 20-year-old woman committed suicide allegedly by hanging herself from a ceiling of her house as she did not have valid currency for her treatment, police said today. Shabana committed suicide yesterday allegedly by hanging from the ceiling as there was no valid currency available at her home and Mobin, her brother, was standing in a queue to get the currency exchanged, SHO Anuradha Singhal said. The incident came to light when her brother returned home, without getting the currency exchanged, and found her hanging, she said.

41. Khajoori Khas, Delhi
24-year-old Rizwana allegedly committed suicide, allegedly upset at not being able to exchange currency.?
41. Vuyyuru, Andhra Pradesh
71-year-old Kanakamedala Vijaya Lakshmi died of heart attack on Wednesday when she entered the bank to exchange two Rs 500 notes.? She was rushed to a government hospital and brought dead on arrival.

42. Sambalpur. Odisha
A two-year-old baby died after being untreated for 3 hours as his father could not rush the sick infant to a hospital.? Autorickshaw drivers refused to accept the old 500 Rupee notes, forcing the father to cycle 7 km to the nearest hospital. By the time his son received medial treatment, it was too late.

43. Alappuzha district, Kerala
75-year-old Karthikeyan Karthikeyan collapsed to death standing in front of a bank branch at 3 PM.
44. ?Kanpur
An elderly woman living alone died of heart attack counting her notes. Her body was found with R2.69 lakh worth of old currency notes.

45. Kanpur

A young man died of a heart attack watching Modi's demonetisation announcement. He had just received a Rs. 70 lakhs advance for selling his land just the previous day a day ago.

46. Cooch Behar, West Bengal
56-year old Dharani Kanta Bhowmik died after standing in line for 3 days to exchange old currency notes

47. Tarn Taran. Punjab

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50-year-old Sukhdev Singh succumbed to a heart attack, unable to make arrangements for his daughter's wedding. Surjit Kaur, the wife of the deceased, told Hindustan Times: "Nobody was accepting the money we had saved for daughter's marriage. My husband was tense due to this. He had complained of chest pain and died."

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