In second incident of its kind in Andhra Pradesh, a huge amount was deposited in the savings account of a daily wage earning worker prompting the bank and the Income Tax department officials to launch a probe.
P Srinivasulu Naidu, a resident of Komatikunta village in Anantapur district, was in for a big shock when the officials of Andhra Bank contacted him over phone to inquire about a deposit of Rs 1.8 crore in his account at Tadipatri branch.
A surprised Naidu, who works on daily wages at a stone factory said, “I was shocked by their question as I had no idea about this deposit or who had made the deposit”. “I have never seen such a big amount of money in my life. leave alone crores I have not seen even thousands of rupees at one time”, he told the reporters in his village. Rs 1.84 crore was deposited in Naidu’s account on Saturday.
The local police was questioning the worker to find out whether some rich and powerful person had used him to deposit the unaccounted cash in the scrapped denomination of Rs 1000 and Rs 500. The bank officials have also alerted the Income Tax department officials to take up the matter for investigation.
In a similar incident last week a poor farmer laborer Pathan Nazeer was also shocked to find that an amount of Rs 1.26 crore in his saving bank account. Again the bank involved was Andhra Bank.
Nazeer, a resident of Amilepalle village in Gurramokonda mandal of Chittoor district had opened an account at Andhra Bank Gurramkonda branch only two months ago and had a meager deposit of Rs 192 in it. He came to know about the huge deposit in his account when he deposited Rs 250 in the account and received a message on his phone showing the total amount in his account at Rs 1,26,76,436.
Both Anantapur and Chittoor districts are part of the backward and dry Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh.