Bhubaneswar, April 30 (IANS) The Revenue Divisional Commissioner (Northern Range), Sangram Keshari Mohapatra, who has been entrusted with investigating the shocking incident in Odisha’s Keonjhar district — where a man was allegedly forced to exhume his sister’s body and carry her skeletal remains to a bank for processing a death claim — on Thursday said that the preliminary probe points towards negligence on the part of bank officials.Mohapatra, who initiated the investigation on Thursday, v…
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Bhubaneswar, April 30 (IANS) The Special Session of Odisha Assembly began on Thursday amid massive uproar over the shocking incident in Keonjhar district, where a tribal man exhumed and carried his sister’s skeletal remains to a bank after being asked by bank officials to produce a death certificate and legal heir certificate to initiate the death claim process a few days ago.As soon as the session commenced, Congress members, holding placards, assembled near the podium of Speaker Surama Padhy a…
Bhubaneswar, April 28 (IANS) Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Tuesday expressed deep sorrow over the shocking incident in which a tribal man exhumed and carried his sister’s skeletal remains to a nearby bank in Keonjhar district after being asked by bank officials to produce a death certificate and legal heir certificate to initiate the death claim process. Asking officials to be more empathetic towards the people, Chief Minister Majhi ordered a probe into the incident by the Northern…
Bhubaneswar, April 28 (IANS) In the wake of a shocking incident in which a man dug up his sister’s body and reached a nearby bank in the Patna block of Keonjhar district with her skeletal remains on Monday to withdraw money from her account, Manas Ranjan Mangaraj, leader of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) parliamentary party, on Tuesday urged Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to initiate immediate reforms in rural banking practices. In his letter, Mangaraj expressed deep concern over the inc…