Three more demonetisation-related deaths were reported from different parts of Maharashtra on Wednesday, taking the number of lives lost since November 8 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced scrapping of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes, to six.
T Tukaram, a security guard employed at a Rajgurunagar bank in Pune, died of a heart attack while he was on duty. There was a long queue of people in front of the bank waiting to exchange or deposit old currency notes, when the incident happened.
Meanwhile, in another case, a senior citizen, identified as Deepak Shah collapsed and died after standing in a queue before a bank for over two hours since Wednesday morning in Bhayander town in Thane district.
At Nanded, a 60-year-old man Digamber Kasbe died while waiting for several hours to exchange old notes at a PSU bank.
Earlier on Tuesday, a 42-year-old man Chhotelal Jaiswal had suffered a heart attack after waiting for over five hours in a queue in Kalwe suburb of Thane and later died in a hospital.
While a 73-year old man suffered a heart attack and died in Mulund last Friday, a prematurely born baby boy had subseuently died after a Govandi-based female doctor refused to admit him to her hospital on the grounds that his parents had no hard cash to pay the hospital in the wake of demonetisation of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes.