In a shocking incident, a daughter had to take her 120-year-old mother to a bank in Naupada district of Odisha to get the latter’s pension money after the bank demanded physical verification of the account holder.
The woman was dragged to the bank on a cot by her 70-year-old daughter.
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The 120-year-old woman has been identified as Labhe Baghel. The incident, reported from Baragan village under Khariar block of Nuapada district, happened on Thursday (June 11).
According to the inputs, the elderly woman had sent her daughter, Gunja Dei, to the bank to withdraw Rs 1,500 from her pension account.
The bank official, however, denied to release the pension money and demanded physical verification of the account holder at the bank premises.
Gunja Dei, who is a senior citizen herself, was left with no other option but to drag her bedridden mother to the bank.
As soon as Gunja Dei along with her mother reached the bank, the bank official, seeing the condition of both the mother and the daughter, released the pension money.
As soon as the video of the incident went viral, Twitterati slammed the bank officials for calling two elderly women to the bank.
Notably, BMC Commissioner Prem Chand Choudhry has written to regional managers of all government, private, scheduled banks and RRBs, asking them to provide door-to-door service to elderly citizens.
