Dead man comes to bank to withdraw cash

Kamble had been admitted hospitalised two months ago after he suffered a paralytic attack last December.

Grief-stricken parents in India recently took their dead son's body to a Punjab National Bank (PNB) branch in Ulhasnagar in Maharashtra as a sign of protest for not giving them money from his account.
Angry family members of Ganesh Kamble barged into the bank on Thursday and showed the bank officials his dead body to prove that he had been seriously ill and in need of money for his treatment.
Kamble had been admitted in KEM Hospital two months ago after he suffered a paralytic attack last December. His parents had been repeatedly requesting the bank to hand over them the Rs25,000 in Kamble's account for his treatment. But the bank officials refused to give them access to their son's account and stated that as Kamble's was an individual account they cannot let anyone access it as per the bank rules.
The family members pleaded with the bank several times and also showed them Kamble's picture of him lying paralysed in KEM Hospital. That's when the bank officials said that they would come to the hospital to verify and take his signature to withdraw money.
Kamble's sister Mahananda Yadav was quoted as saying in Mid-Day, "Every few days they had to go to the bank requesting that my brother's money be signed over to them. But officials kept saying that his signature was needed. He was lying unconscious on a hospital bed! How did they imagine we could have got his sign?"
Yadav added, "We had taken a loan from relatives to buy medicines for him. Last week, when my father went to the bank again, officials said they would come to the hospital. But they didn't and my brother died."
Defending why the money was not handed over to Kamble's parents, Ulhasnagar PNB official Somnath Sarode, said, "We can't give money to anyone other than the account holder. On humanitarian grounds, we told them that we would come to visit the person, but he died that day. After his death, we brought out the list of nominees and handed over the money to his family."

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