After she failed to withdraw money from her account, a BA student tried to commit suicide at a bank in Etawah, Uttar Pradesh.
A report in The Times Of India mentions that 23-year-old Girja was rushed to a primary health centre after she resorted to stabbing herself to end her life. The report mentions that the State Bank of India officials at the branch told her that her KYC documents were not in order.
The police told the newspaper that Girja had been making rounds of the bank for the past two weeks and trying to withdraw Rs 2000 for a chronic illness she was suffering from. “Every time her number came, the bank employees refused to give her money by saying that her KYC documents were incomplete. When she asked for KYC form, they would plead helplessness saying that they didn't have it," station officer Bharthana Sunil Kumar Singh told the TOI.
Advertisement
The report mentions that when employees at the bank asked her to complete her KYC formalities again, she produced a knife and injured herself. The bank manager is said to have told the police that there had been a shortage of KYC forms since demonetization was announced.
The RBI and the government have come in for criticism after a number of changes in rules and roll-backs that have happened in the the past six weeks. The Congress has resorted to calling the RBI the 'Reverse Bank of India.'
