How will you react if you wake up one day to find that your bank account has been credited with Rs 9,806 crore! This is not possible only in dreams, this can happen in reality too!
A taxi driver from
Punjab woke up on November 4 to discover that a sum of Rs
98,05,95,12,231 had been credited into his State Bank of Patiala (SBoP)
account, says a Hindustan Times report.
But, the money was debited from Balwinder Singh's account the very next day.
"I
made many rounds of the bank, but nobody listened to me. Instead they
kept my passbook with them on November 7, and issued a new passbook
without the gigantic entry," Singh told HT. "I had opened the account
under Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY). My balance usually is
around Rs 3,000," he added.
Lead bank manager Sandeep Garg, however, had quite a simple explanation for the freak occurrence.
"The
account holder happens to be a designated vendor for the bank. While
passing a credit entry of Rs 200, an assistant manager (accounts)
wrongly inserted the bank's 11-digit internal Banking General Ledger
account number in the amount column. The mistake was noticed the next
day, following which the entry was reversed," he told HT.
Deputy commissioner Bhupinder Singh Rai confirmed the matter. A team
of income tax staff from Barnala, Sangrur and Patiala led by assistant
commissioner Pritpal Singh carried out the investigation till midnight.
Branch manager Ravinder Kumar refused to divulge any details.
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