Law Kumar Mishra
Patna, September 16
Close on the heels of a man in Khagaria district of Bihar receiving Rs 5.5 lakh in his account due to error from the banking staff, the account of two school boys of Katihar district were credited with Rs 900 crore and Rs 6 crore respectively, which was later attributed by the bank staff to system glitch.
The boys hold the account in Uttar Bihar Gramin Bank in Bihar’s Katihar district.
The mind-boggling amount of Rs 900 core was credited in the accounts of class VI students, Guruchandra Vishwas while Ashish Kumar got richer at least in the books by Rs 6.2 crore. Both of them are resident of Pastiya village in Bagaura panchayat in Katihar district.
Later, the Katihar district magistrate, Udayan Mishra, while speaking to the media, said that he has ordered the bank to submit a report on the matter. “Last evening, I received the information that a huge sum has been found in the bank accounts of two boys. We went to the bank branch early this morning to check how it happened.
The branch manager told us there was some glitch in the computerized system of the bank. The amount, though visible in the statements of the two students, was not present in reality in their account. I have sought a report from the bank,” Mishra said.
This comes a days after a similar matter was reported from Khagaria district where a private tutor, Ranjit Das received Rs 5.5 lakh in his account due to a bank error.
When the bank staff contacted him to return the money, he refused to do so under the impression that it could be a ploy of scamsters to extort money that was sent to him by the government.
“I felt that due to Covid-19 and the lockdown, the government had sent the amount into my account
. These days, a lot of banking frauds take place and so I did not return. I spent Rs 1,60, 970 from the said amount. I was happy that the government had sent some money when I needed it. How else could money reach my empty account,” Das told the police investigating into the complaint filed by the bank. Later, he was arrested on Tuesday and sent to judicial custody by a local court on Wednesday.
Das claimed he got Rs five lakhs in his bank account as first instalment of the Rs 15 lakhs promised by the Prime Minister.
About Katihar bank, officials said the state government send money to the students for purchase of uniforms and the highly inflated figure was of the said remittance by the government.
