Yet Another Death Due To Demonetisation! Farmer Collapses Inside Bank, Dies In Front Of His Son
The 80-year-old had gone to the bank to withdraw cash for the treatment of his heart illness
When Rajesh Kumar accompanied his 80-year-old father - Baladeen - from their village Saragpura to the Allahabad Bank branch, seven kilometres away, he did not know that it was the last journey his father would ever make.
¡°My father wasn¡¯t keeping well, we needed the money badly for his heart treatment,¡± Rajesh told HT. ¡°I filled the withdrawal slip for Rs 14,000 but the clerk gave us Rs 6,000. I told him about my father¡¯s condition and my father pleaded with him but he was unrelenting¡±.
During the heated argument that followed, his father suddenly complained of chest pain and then slumped to the floor and died.
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The incident took place near Kanpur and the people queuing up in the bank were enraged by the flow of events. They demanded the arrest of the bank employees for their insensitive approach which led t the death of Baladeen.
Police was called in to help disperse the angry mob and the body was sent for post-mortem. Officials claim that the complaint in being looked into.
