Man in India takes sister’s skeleton to bank to prove her death
After repeated refusals, Jeetu Munda brought his sister’s exhumed remains to the bank, where officials later arranged the documents needed to access her account.
- A 50-year-old man in the Keonjhar district of Odisha, India, stunned onlookers by bringing his deceased sister's skeletal remains to a rural bank branch in a desperate attempt to claim her savings.
- Identified as Jeetu Munda, the illiterate tribal man exhumed his sister’s remains from her grave and carried them in a sack to the Odisha Grameen Bank to prove she had died on January 26.
- Munda claimed he had made multiple visits to the bank to withdraw roughly ₹20,000 from his late sister's account, but staff repeatedly insisted he "bring the account holder" in person.
- Local police intervened and clarified that the bank officials had failed to explain the legal process for a death certificate or nominee claim to Munda, who is his sister's sole surviving relative.
- Following the viral incident, district authorities have stepped in to facilitate the legal paperwork and ensure the funds are released to Munda, while the sister's remains were reburied under police supervision.
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A 50-year-old Indian man dug up his sister, who died in late January, and took her body to a bank to prove that she was really dead. He had previously wanted to withdraw money from her account, but officials refused to give him the money, saying they needed either inheritance documents or the personal presence of the account owner.
Man digs up sister’s body, hauls it into the bank to prove she’s dead
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 cer…
A man from a tribal community in the state of Odisha, in eastern India, finally managed to recover his deceased sister's savings after a bank dispute that led him to exhume the body and present it at the branch office as proof of death in the absence of formal documentation.
All you normally need to get to the savings of deceased people is an inheritance certificate. Because it was not available, an Indian came up with a special idea.
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