Karnataka: ATM dispenses Rs 500 notes instead of Rs 100, customers get Rs 1.50 lakh more
Madikeri: Residents of Madikeri were in for a big surprise when an ATM in the city started dispensing Rs 500 notes instead of Rs 100!
As soon as the news of the fault spread, people gathered to form long queues there and soon withdrew all the money from the Canara Bank ATM, customer Sridhar reported.
By that time many people already withdrew total amount of Rs 1.50 lakh from the ATM.
A private agency workers who installed the cash into the machine had wrongly inserted Rs 500 into Rs 100 slot.
When the bank was finally informed, it was too late. The ATM was shut down till the note placement was corrected.
Canara Bank is now finding out the addresses of the people who withdrew the money through their debit cards and is requesting them to return the money. The incident occurred on December 30 in 2019 in the Kohinoor road in Madikeri. People were surprised at seeing the inflated amount but soon enough began withdrawing as much as possible.
However, people had refused to give back the money. Bank workers filed a complaint on Jan 6 at the city police station in this regard, and when the people gets a call from the police they returned back money into the Bank.
Now the Bank get deposited all the money back which was withdrawn from the fault ATM.
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Two killed as college tour bus crashes into parked tanker, lorry near Maravanthe
Kundapur: Two persons died and several students were injured after a college tour bus rammed into a tanker and a goods lorry parked by the roadside near Maravanthe Beach in Trasi on Wednesday afternoon.
The bus was carrying final-year B.Com students of Rambhapuri College from Shivamogga district. According to sources, the group had left for the tour two days ago.
There were around 50 persons in the bus, including 24 male students and 23 female students.
The students had visited Murdeshwar and were travelling towards Udupi on Wednesday when the accident occurred.
Police said the bus driver reportedly lost control of the vehicle, following which the bus first hit a parked gas tanker and then crashed into a goods lorry stationed ahead.
The front portion of the bus was badly mangled in the impact. Preliminary information said the bus cleaner and a cooking assistant travelling with the group died in the accident. Several injured students were shifted to different hospitals in Kundapur for treatment.
