A man from India reportedly dug up his sister’s body so he could prove to a bank that she was dead.
The man, Jitu Munda, went to an Indian Overseas Bank branch on Monday to try to withdraw money from his dead sister’s account, according to CBS News. It’s not clear when the sister died.
There was one problem. The bank said “withdrawals by a third party are not permitted without proper authorization,” meaning in short that Munda needed a death certificate before he could access his sister’s money.
Evidently uninterested in obtaining one, Munda instead dug up his sister’s body and carried it to the bank in lieu of a death certificate.
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He was told to “bring the account holder.” So he did.
Jitu Munda exhumed his sister’s skeleton and carried it to an Odisha Rural Bank to withdraw her last ₹19,300.
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“Television networks broadcast footage of Munda carrying what appeared to be a corpse partially wrapped in plastic, with skeletal legs visible and slung over his shoulder,” CBS notes.
The bank said in a statement that his actions “created a highly distressing situation at the premises.” The bank also accused Munda of having a “lack of awareness” as to proper procedures.
Sadly for Munda, he still remains without the money.
“The claim will be settled on (with) priority, once the death certificate is submitted,” the bank said.
However, the police are reportedly trying to work with him.
“Following the controversy, police officials reportedly coordinated efforts to support Jitu Munda in completing the withdrawal process through the correct legal channels,” according to the Lokmat Times.
“The skeletal remains of his sister were later reburied at the graveyard under police supervision, bringing a temporary closure to an incident that exposed gaps in communication and awareness regarding banking procedures in remote tribal communities,” the outlet reported.
What’s crazy is that something similar occurred only months earlier in February, when a South African family brought the body of their grandmother, Elizabeth Maliwa, in a body bag to a Capitec Bank branch, according to the Cape Times.
They brought her body to the bank as “proof of death” for a funeral insurance policy claim after the bank allegedly delayed payout and demanded further documentation despite submitted documents.
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“Reports indicate that the family had two policies with the bank for their grandmother; one was paid out and the second was pending verification due to an unclear funeral parlour stamp,” the local police said in a statement. “The family brought the deceased’s body to the bank using a funeral parlour’s vehicle, causing disturbance and intimidation.”
Two women, reportedly Maliwa’s granddaughters, drove her body in a mortuary vehicle to the bank, and then proceeded to wheel the body inside the bank on a stretcher.
“The police confirmed that the women are facing charges of extortion, disturbance, and intimidation,” the Cape Times reported.
Two years earlier in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, a woman brought a dead 68-year-old man in a wheelchair into a bank to ostensibly have him sign for a loan, according to Reuters.
“Uncle, are you listening? You need to sign,” she told the dead body in front of the bank staff. “He doesn’t say anything, that’s just how he is. If you’re not okay, I’m going to take you to the hospital.”
The bank staffers reportedly became suspicious and called the cops because the dead man’s head kept falling back whenever the woman stopped holding it.
The woman claimed the man had died right there at the bank, but forensic investigators later determined that was a lie.
That same year, an Ohio woman, Karen Casbohm, and her friend Loreen Feralo took the dead body of their roommate, 80-year-old Douglas Layman, to the bank to withdraw $900 from his account after they found him dead, according to People magazine.
Casbohm later admitted to what she’d done during a jailhouse phone call with a relative.
In a press release shared with People magazine, local police said: “The two women have both been charged with gross abuse of a corpse.”
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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