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Heavy rush for cash at banks, ATMs in Bengaluru

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Bengaluru, atm, heavy rush, cash, bank, demonetization effect,Bengaluru :  Braving the morning chill, hundreds of people, young and old, queued up at ATMs and banks across this tech hub on Thursday to draw cash at the earliest. Anticipating heavy rush on the month’s first day, banks filled up their ATMs with Rs 2,000, Rs 500 and Rs 100 currency notes during the night to ensure that customers could withdraw cash directly rather than queuing up at the branches.

Similarly, hundreds of customers without debit or credit cards queued up at bank branches in residential and commercial areas with cheques and passbooks in hand more than an hour before they opened for transaction to avoid delay in getting cash across-the-counter on salary day.”Expecting more withdrawals today (Thursday), we have not only filled all our ATMs in the city with cash, but also kept more cash ready to refill them soon and ensure that those with debit or credit cards do not crowd our branches,” said Shridar Murthy, a state-run bank branch official here.

With the daily withdrawal limit of Rs 2,500 from ATMs and Rs 10,000 per day or Rs 24,000 a week from counters to each customer in force, banks have braced themselves to disperse the permitted amount to as many of their customers as possible.”We are doing our best to ensure that all our savings and current account customers are able to draw cash up to the limit they are entitled to through ATMs and across counters, as they need more cash in the first 10 days of the month to meet their requirements,” said Murthy.

As the largest state-run bank with about 2,000 ATMs and 200 branches across the city, the State Bank of India (SBI) has collected about Rs 100 crore from the regional Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to stock its ATMs and branches with enough cash to allow its customers draw cash for salaries and other expenses during this week.”In view of our large customer base, with more accounts of government agencies, private organisations and companies and pensioners, we have roped in about 100 of our retired officials to help the staff in handling the rush,” said SBI’s Bengaluru circle’s General Manager Rajni Mishra.

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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May 5, 2022

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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