Daijiworld Media Network - Puttur (MS)
Puttur, Aug 6: The name of both ladies in question is the same. Rs three lac that was to be deposited to the account of a person's wife has been credited to some to other lady's account by oversight. Now the lucky beneficiary is saying that the money belongs to her. The court has directed the bank of the stranger lady not to release the funds to her.
This is a net banking transaction that went awry. Puttur chief civil court has ordered the branch of a bank in Haryana not to release the amount, which was deposited by mistake in the account of one of their lady customer.
Dr Prithvinarayan P had transferred an amount of Rs three lac to his wife's account via net banking. However, due to oversight, this amount got deposited to some other account, which had the same name as that of the wife of Dr Prithvinarayan, at Bhiwani branch of Punjab & Sindh Bank in Haryana. Dr Prithvinarayan came to know about
this mishap after three days of the transaction and he made a request to the said branch not to release the amount to the stranger. In the meantime, the lady, who is a customer of the Bhiwani branch of Punjab & Sindh bank also sent an application to the bank saying that the money belongs to her.
A case was filed in this regard in the Puttur court. The court which conducted an inquiry passed an interim injunction to the manager of the Bhiwani branch of Punjab & Sindh Bank and asked him to hold the amount of Rs three lac. Lawyer Girish Mali had argued the case for Dr Prithvinarayan.
Error due to the similarity in names
Dr Prithvinarayan P, a resident of Barimar near Mani, is an assistant professor in Palakkad IIT. He had opened an NRI account in Karnataka Bank of Puttur when he was in Israel. He had transferred an amount of Rs three lac through this account to his wife Kusum's account in the Sonepat branch of Karoor Vaishya Bank in Haryana on July 27.
Kusum, who did not receive the money even after three days informed the matter to her husband. When Dr Prithvinarayan checked, the money had been credited to the account of a certain Kusum, who had an account in the Bhiwani branch of Punjab & Sindh bank.
Immediately, Dr Prithvinarayan informed the same to the branch manager of Bhiwani branch of Punjab & Sindh bank. However, Kusum, the stranger got the smell of money and also claimed with the branch manager that the amount belongs to her. So a case was registered in this regard on July 31 in the court of Puttur. The court which went through the documents gave an interim injunction in this regard.