“Complete Failure of Indian Govt & Banking System: Tribal Man Forced to Dig Up Sister’s Grave and Carry Her Skeleton 3 km After Bank Repeatedly Demanded ‘Bring the Account Holder’ to Withdraw Just ₹20,000”
F*** that website. Seriously, what is the point of even having a story if your aggressive ads guarantee that it is unreadable.
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Same_Efficiency_332511 hr ago
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50 words news article with 100 ads . lol
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sillylittlguy9 hr ago
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article content:
> Man Digs Up Sister's Skeleton, Carries It To Bank For Rs 19,300 Balance
> When Jitu approached the bank to withdraw the Rs 19,300 remaining balance in his sister's account, the bank manager refused, saying either the account holder must be present or he must furnish legal heir documents.
> Keonjhar: A man in Odisha's Keonjhar district walked three kilometres under the scorching sun, carrying his dead sister's skeletal remains on his shoulder to a bank in an attempt to retrieve Rs 19,300 from her account.
> The man, Jitu Munda, is from Keonjhar's Dianali village. His sister, Kakra Munda, held an account at Odisha Gramin Bank, Mallipasi. Kakra died two months ago. Her husband and only child died earlier, leaving Jitu as her sole surviving relative.
> When Jitu approached the bank to withdraw the Rs 19,300 remaining balance in his sister's account, the bank manager refused, saying either the account holder must be present or he must furnish legal heir documents.
> A tribal man with no education, Jitu had no death certificate or succession papers and returned helpless after not being able to understand the complex process.
> On Monday, Jitu went to the village cremation ground. He dug out his sister's remains, wrapped the skeleton in cloth, and walked 3 kms to the bank in blazing heat.
> Once Jitu reached the bank, the sight left the locals stunned. While some wept, others fumed in anger. Villagers accused the bank of extreme insensitivity. "Is it this hard for a poor man to get his own money?" they asked.
> Locals said the bank could have verified with the Sarpanch or done a field visit, but paperwork won over compassion.
> Police Intervene, Assure Action
> Police reached the spot after being alerted, calmed Jitu and took charge. Police said the case would be handled on humanitarian grounds and sought a response from the bank.
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haermamora11 hr ago
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I haven't seen a single ad in years. Just use adblock or private DNS.
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Razhyel7 hr ago
+1
Good call. It got way worse. Like... alot worse.
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YourAverageBrownDude10 hr ago
+37
Welcome to India. There is really nothing in India at an institutional level that isn't straight up garbage
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Appropriate_Ad87349 hr ago
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it’s a global issue, websites around the world have gotten more like this. it’s just greed really. greed is the true universal language
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piejaanbot10 hr ago
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czerwona_swinia10 hr ago
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Not a single AD visible on the page. 23 actions taken by ublock. Do you really browse modern internet without a blocker?
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hurricane_news9 hr ago
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The point is that a news article shouldn't resort to stuffing their website with ads in the first place. Imagine an old grandpa trying to view this site on they years old phone that wasn't top of the line when it came out
Or for people with motor and visual disabilities
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Davemblover699 hr ago
+8
We have discovered that up to 70 percent of the screen can be ads before starting to cause seizures. Win win
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Internet-Cryptid8 hr ago
+1
You're right, but this isn't a new issue - obnoxious ads, popups, banners and other garbage have been a plague since the 90s. At some point people need to be proactive about their own experiences. Download Firefox, install uBlock Origin, and do the same for grandma and grandpa.
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animeman599 hr ago
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If it's free then you have no choice.
See the ads, pay the subscription, or use an ad blocker.
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Federal-Guess74207 hr ago
+1
How do you imagine the site should earn the money it needs to run? No one is willing to pay so they put ads and yet you are still so offended by just having to look at something you are willing to write a scathing comment. Holy hell entitlement is going from funny to sad at this point.
Download an ad blocker if you are so sensitive.
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hurricane_news7 hr ago
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Strawman fallacy. At what point did I say that ads must not be allowed at all? You work at an ad agency, I take it? And for your info I do use uBlock origin lmao
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qtx9 hr ago
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> The point is that a news article shouldn't resort to stuffing their website with ads in the first place.
This is such a stupid shortsighted way to look at things.
How tf do you suggest they pay for everything? No one is buying subscriptions to newspapers/sites any more. The only way they can make money is via ads.
I fecking hate ads but I know they are needed for any type of journalism to survive.
edit: ah, and you're hiding your history, auto-downvote.
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aaaaaaaarrrrrgh8 hr ago
+1
Back in my day (shakes fist at cloud), that was text-only Adsense ads and *maybe* some non-animated images, until everyone started out-competing each other by adding shittier and shittier ads for a few percent extra revenue.
Now that the enshittification is complete, of course nobody will pay enough for the text only ads if everywhere else they can also hijack the entire page. The ad industry could self-regulate to keep ads reasonable, but they don't, so ublock origin go brrrrrrrrrr.
Google actually ["tried"](https://www.betterads.org/standards/) by identifying which kinds of ads piss people off the most, then drawing an incredibly low line - e.g. "taking up *half* your screen with ads is fine, more than half is crossing the line" - then doing nothing about it and stretching it even lower (e.g. "unskippable ads are bad, unless it's on short-form video, then 30 seconds are OK, and also everything on Youtube is 'long-form' now).
Every single page that begged me to disable my ad blocker immediately abused it by shoving the worst kind of ads down my face. Back when ABP was a thing and had the "acceptable ads" option, I kept it enabled, because it was the one semi-self-regulation attempt that looked like it might go somewhere. Then they started allowing the Taboola clickbait shit and out it went.
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Internet-Cryptid8 hr ago
+1
The internet was full of obnoxious ads long before Google or Adsense came along. Flashing, seizure-inducing banners, pop-ups, windows you couldn't close, scam ads... almost everything from today was present except for video ads because there wasn't enough bandwidth back then. It was the wild west and sites competed on how effectively they could exploit early HTML and Java to make the ads as obtrusive as possible.
Google came and smoothed some of it out for a time, but what was present then is still present today. Enshittification has been here since the 90s. People need to be proactive with adblocking because ads are here to stay.
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aaaaaaaarrrrrgh7 hr ago
+1
They existed, but for some glorious time at least the more reputable web sites weren't using them much, especially as the text ads paid better.
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MinnervaMills9 hr ago
Downvoted for the edit. lol.
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aaaaaaaarrrrrgh8 hr ago
+1
What the hell are you doing browsing the Internet in 2026 without an ad blocker?!?
This was one of the cleanest news web sites I've seen in a long time. No cookie, newsletter, or paywall popup, the sign-in popup was just sitting in a corner not blocking any content, only one autoplaying video that turns into a sticky wart as you scroll, a non-obtrusive and kinda useful AI summary feature, and of course, not a single ad to be seen.
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Vas-yMonRoux7 hr ago
+1
What do you use on your phone?
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aaaaaaaarrrrrgh7 hr ago
+1
Android with Firefox and uBlock Origin.
For YouTube, you can either watch it in the browser or there are various unofficial apps, NewPipe and Revanced are the best known ones. I bet there are malware infested versions of these around, so be careful.
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315133151331513315137 hr ago
+1
What ads?
Seriously, y'all need to get a pi-hole.
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temporalxpincer7 hr ago
+1
No adblock in this day and age? HUH!?
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theeldergod18 hr ago
+1
Even the news websites are awful like the news they present.
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90bubbel7 hr ago
+1
You were not kidding holy hell
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lococommotion7 hr ago
+1
As long as you clicked the link they made their $
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Eagle__Gunner10 hr ago
+270
I am empathetic to the situation. But if your siblings went to your bank and drained money from your accounts by saying you are dead and no valid proof will you be ok with it.
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1800skylab9 hr ago
+62
That's where a death certificate is helpful, if they accept it.
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aaaaaaaarrrrrgh8 hr ago
+1
The article mentions that (the bank asked for the account holder *or a proper inheritance certificate*, the person didn't have one nor were they used to dealing with such bureaucracy, so... shovel time).
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Excludos8 hr ago
+1
He didn't have one
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namitynamenamey8 hr ago
+1
And on today's episode of "this is exactly why we invented bureaucracy"...
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tiredmummyof29 hr ago
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I don't understand why this is so news worthy, the woman was dead for three years. As per Indian banking laws, ab account becomes dormant if there is no activity in it for 6 months, after which the account holder needs to go to the bank in person and submit their documents to activate the account, without these formalities no amount can be withdrawn from the account. Also,how can my sibling withdraw any amount from my account without any signed cheque from me? If there is any crime here it is the desecration of a dead body for which that man should be locked up.
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sillylittlguy9 hr ago
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> His sister, Kakra Munda, held an account at Odisha Gramin Bank, Mallipasi. Kakra died two months ago.
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tiredmummyof28 hr ago
+1
Even if she was dead 2 days, he cannot withdraw money from his account
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JustWill_HD8 hr ago
+1
did she leave it to him? is he legally allowed the money as next of kin? you don't automatically get you sisters money cos they die.
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Hopeful-Explorer-4438 hr ago
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he must be the nominee (atleast one person has to be nominee in bank accounts - the money goes to them if something happens to you), the main issue is lack of death certificate
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lurkermuch10 hr ago
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It’s not a failure at all, it’s just standard across the world to require a death certificate, followed by a legal document stating you have the right to access the deceased money or proof that you’re related. If not for such laws, I imagine a scammer can easily go to your bank and claim you’re dead.
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sillylittlguy9 hr ago
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> Locals said the bank could have verified with the Sarpanch or done a field visit, but paperwork won over compassion...
> Police reached the spot after being alerted, calmed Jitu and took charge. Police said the case would be handled on humanitarian grounds and sought a response from the bank.
from google: "A Sarpanch is the elected head of a village-level statutory institution of local self-government, known as the Gram Panchayat, in India."
Edit: this seems like the bank's response since the story has gone viral. no idea what rly happened, but the bank's response is mildly interesting:
> Contrary to certain media reports, bank officials did not demand the physical presence of a deceased customer for withdrawal...
> Our Branch Manager clearly explained that in the event of death, settlement can only be processed upon submission of valid documents, including a death certificate.
> The individual who was in an **inebriated** condition became disruptive and later returned with human remains
https://x.com/IOBIndia/status/2049049644819530208
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Single-Purpose-76088 hr ago
+1
I guess it makes sense for their to be difficulty for the "tribal" man to understand banking customs (which are perfectly reasonable to protect against fraud)
This story is interesting as a human interest story, but people being outraged at the bank are also being unreasonable.
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ohmuisnotangry7 hr ago
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It IS not only a failure it was very clearly a call for bribes.
I ran into a very similar situation where I was asked (I counted) 25 different times for proof of my father's death (I provided official death certificate and other documents every single time) just to file a claim for his hospitalization expenses. In my case it was either apathy or just a desire to save money on the insurance company's part. My father died in a large city so I had the papers.
In a village, there are no death certificates, birth certificates or any paperwork in most cases. The officials were very likely asking for additional money to grease the process along, and the man either wasn't taking the hint or didn't want to.
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[deleted]8 hr ago
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Ambitious_Wolf_31167 hr ago
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What's insanity is a drunk guy bringing human remains to a bank and people shitting on india for it.
You don't need to be educated or even literate to know what a death certificate is. So people just need an excuse no? Without this comment pointing out that this is standard procedure for banks, people would have been criticising on india even more.
Funny how there are many americans who don't understand the concept of tarrifs being paid by them and not other countries, but nobody really comments "tHe biGgEst SuPeRpOwEr" has poorly educated people.
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otaku_nazi11 hr ago
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To be fair, withdrawal without a death certificate and a legal heir document would result in lots of fraud.
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_MrBond_11 hr ago
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Read the damn article and not just the headline.
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Dinokknd10 hr ago
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He did. The man had no death certificate.
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Cookbook_10 hr ago
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What part?
"a tribal man with no education, Jitu had no death certificate or succession papers and returned helpless after not being able to understand the complex process."
He and his sister had no trouble opening the bank account and using it in the first place, so it's weirdly infantilizing the man - no mention why the death cerficate is difficult to aquire.
Whole article is just ragebait.
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Ray56710 hr ago
+25
Lmao how ignorant, maybe you should take your own advice.
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_MrBond_10 hr ago
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Lmao how ignorant, maybe you should take your own advice.
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NinerKNO9 hr ago
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From the article:
A tribal man with no education, Jitu had no death certificate or succession papers and returned helpless after not being able to understand the complex process.
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_MrBond_9 hr ago
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You don't really understand the nuances of South Asia and even more for someone from Tribal culture. I replied thinking I was on a South Asian sub.
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binguser09 hr ago
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What nuances? I honestly don't like reducing our people to simpletons and assuming that they can't do basic things. It's not the bank's fault, but someone in his family or perhaps his village panchayat should have helped him get a death certificate.
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ShoulderPast243310 hr ago
+97
Why didn't he bring her death certificate??
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kirakiraluna10 hr ago
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Fun story! A long time tenant of a client died so the home owner wanted to switch electricity and gas back to her.
Gas wasn't an issue and was done in a day sending the request and death certificate, electricity... They demanded a signed form by the current utilities owner, who at the time had already been cremated and buried.
We called to explain that current utility owner is kinda dead an unable to sign anything, because ya know, she's dead and ash. Nope, no transfer without the signature.
We called another office and they, after a good laugh, were fine with a death certificate and immediately processed the request.
Welcome to Italy
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Itwasallyell0w9 hr ago
+9
In Romania you only need last owner's bill.
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kirakiraluna9 hr ago
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It used to be like that but then there were issues with power companies doing contracts switcheroos on the phone (bills are also sent in mails) and scamming people to get them more expensive contracts, and now you need a signed form for basically everything.
One exception is if you bought the house, the deed receipt is usually enough to change the contract holder name.
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DeltaBlack8 hr ago
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Thing is that people hear stories like the one in OP they don't consider that there are usually reasons why there are these requirements in the first place.
Like (I think?) EU regulations requiring online banking to use two-factor-authentication that isn't SMS based. That is a result of SIM swap attacks that made it so that victims didn't get the mTANs while their bank accounts are drained.
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sillylittlguy9 hr ago
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> A tribal man with no education, Jitu had no death certificate or succession papers and returned helpless after not being able to understand the complex process.
Edit: this seems like the bank's response since the story has gone viral. no idea what rly happened, but the bank's response is mildly interesting:
> Contrary to certain media reports, bank officials did not demand the physical presence of a deceased customer for withdrawal...
> Our Branch Manager clearly explained that in the event of death, settlement can only be processed upon submission of valid documents, including a death certificate.
> The individual who was in an **inebriated** condition became disruptive and later returned with human remains
https://x.com/IOBIndia/status/2049049644819530208
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aaaaaaaarrrrrgh8 hr ago
+1
Some people even in highly developed countries where everyone has to deal with bureaucracy aren't good at dealing with bureaucracy.
Now imagine a country where ~20% of adults (likely more in a rural area where this happened) are going through their lives without being able / required to read and write.
Can't blame him for interpreting "you need to bring the person or " as "better get a shovel".
Also, this was over $200, or (based on numbers from Gemini, so take it with a grain of salt) about two months' worth of median income in rural areas.
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CrinkleLord7 hr ago
+1
Cause he was a drunk tribalman who likely barely understands any of how any of these systems work.
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qtx9 hr ago
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> Why didn't he bring her death certificate??
It takes 10 seconds to read the article, yet you decided to waste that time to write a comment that is explained in the article instead..
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aaaaaaaarrrrrgh8 hr ago
+1
To be fair, for most other news sources it takes about 20 seconds to dismiss all the popups only to find yourself in front of a paywall, and then spend the next 1-2 minutes fiddling with various archive sites and other bypass techniques...
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Man_from_Bombay10 hr ago
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You do need a death certificate, and it isn’t that hard to get one from the village head. Being uneducated isn't really an excuse; my grandpa, who never stepped foot in a school, managed to get a death certificate for my great-grandfather several years after he passed just to inherit his property.
The Indian government knew how uneducated and poor its citizens were after independence, so they crafted rules and bureaucratic procedures with that in mind.
This man is just being dense. Being illiterate doesn’t make you dumb; otherwise, anyone could claim multiple accounts belonging to deceased people like this
edit: This news company should be banned from worldnews for the number of ads and the AI reporting. Ts is practically unreadable
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Old_Leshen9 hr ago
+22
OP's history is all about sensationalizing news. This isnt a Complete Failure of Indian Govt & Banking System. Complete failure would no one is able to do stuff like this - which isnt the case at all.
In this case, the tribal man / his family is probably one of those who "fell through the cracks" and have zero to very little paperwork / documents.
Without the proper paperwork, no bank is going to release money. But hey, for OP, stupidity sells, so why not!?
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[deleted]7 hr ago
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PromotionKooky44267 hr ago
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But how is it related to this news that u claimed is a failure of banking system
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Mr_Coco123410 hr ago
+29
A lot of 'uneducated' people just like to be victims. Everyone and their mother knows that you have to prove death so that banking system can flag the account holder as deceased and initiate next of kin process. Either the teller did not properly communicate this or the tribal man just decided to make a spectacle.
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Offyerrocker10 hr ago
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Couldn't be bothered to read more five sentences in, I see.
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NinerKNO9 hr ago
+16
"A tribal man with no education, Jitu had no death certificate or succession papers and returned helpless after not being able to understand the complex process. "
This is not the banks fault. The man was stupid, as he could have asked for the papers the villige elders instead of starting to dig a grave.
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Offyerrocker9 hr ago
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> he could have asked for the papers the villige elders instead of starting to dig a grave
Maybe he did. The article doesn't mention whether he tried that, or whether the elders even had the papers to begin with. I don't think it's fair to jump to the conclusion that he's just stupid.
If you're born in a tribal village and don't have any sort of regular exposure to the legal world, how could you be expected to know what to do or whom to ask about such things? Certainly, nobody is born with that knowledge.
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NinerKNO9 hr ago
+14
Nobody is born with the knowledge to get the certificate. However, most people are born with the knowledge not to start digging a 2-month-old grave just because a bank teller or manager was rude to you or followed proper procedures. He could have asked a lot of people for help instead of going this far. If nobody was willing to help him, then there might be a reason for that.
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Offyerrocker9 hr ago
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> However, most people are born with the knowledge not to start digging a 2-month-old grave just because a bank teller or manager was rude to you or followed proper procedures.
Uh, I think most everyone knows you *shouldn't* go around digging up graves, yes, but if you're really desperate, and your family member has very recently died and some jerk at the bank doesn't seem to believe you, you might end up doing something crazy, yeah.
> He could have asked a lot of people for help instead of going this far.
Again, we don't know the circumstances beyond what the article tells us. Yes, clearly this issue just had to be put in front of the right person (or attract the right sort of attention), but it's a bit different to know that and think about it the right way when you're in the thick of the situation oneself, as opposed to being removed from it entirely, both physically and culturally.
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Mr_Coco123410 hr ago
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Ah yes educated and uneducated people are different races. Gotta love the jargons that come out from you people.
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Offyerrocker10 hr ago
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"You people" lmao. Anyway, nice dodge. I literally did not say that they were, so you're zero for two on reading comprehension
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axilmar9 hr ago
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lol...in Greece, and old local hip hop group had a song about the greek state, and one of the rhymes was about 'we don't care if your business partner has died, if you want that specific certificate for your business, dig up your business partner'...
unbelievable that it happened in reality...
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Helpful-Leading-79488 hr ago
+1
How is it a failure of the indian banking system?
Do first world countries give inheritance if you show death certificate? There's something called a Will, a nominee and all, right?
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Responsible_Flight707 hr ago
+1
Typically you set it up ahead of time with the institution. That way if there is an accident no one will have you do the stupid thing of bringing the damn body
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piejaanbot11 hr ago
+23
Everything is government failure🤡.
What a shit article.
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Certain_Plate370110 hr ago
+2
Seems fake
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Nobita_kothari10 hr ago
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[ya but its true ](https://m.rediff.com/news/report/man-brings-sisters-skeleton-to-bank-for-withdrawal/20260427.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com)
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2w3nty8ight8 hr ago
+1
Zest No
R
Chu
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ICEGRILLZ6667 hr ago
+1
F*** this indian content
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Wowsuch_user10 hr ago
+1
Last time an indian was posting this sort of article for pakistan, is this the turn of paskitan now?
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slimeyy_029 hr ago
Isn't it an indian news site?
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Surris10 hr ago
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F*** EMOTIONLESS BANKS
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Regular-Mechanic-8169 hr ago
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Supapawer yeah grape
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itsthekumar10 hr ago
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People made jokes stuff like this would happen.
Guess sooner or later it would happen.
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