Bank of Maharashtra ordered to pay Rs 2 lakhs compensation for deficiency in service

NP NEWS NETWORK 

Pune 

The Pune consumer court has ordered the Bank of Maharashtra Bajirao Road branch manager, and a deputy general manager from its head office, Lokmangal, to jointly pay Rs two lakh compensation to a Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) employee for not allowing him to withdraw money from his salary account with the bank for five months.

Ram Maruti Bhise, a resident of Bibvewadi, had filed a complaint in the consumer forum (court) in 2017.

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His case in a nutshell and the reason for deficiency in service alleged is that the opposite parties (bank managers), without any valid reason, without his consent and without written intimation to him, prevented him from withdrawing amounts from his salary account with them during the period from June, 2016 to November, 2016, because of which he suffered financial loss and was put to physical and mental trouble.

Complaint proceeded ex parte against the opposite parties as the bank officials didn’t appear before the forum.

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“Complainant has filed his affidavit evidence in support of the contents of the complaint. He has produced the statement of his bank account with the opposite parties, which clearly shows that there is no withdrawal of any amount from June 2016 to October 2016. It does not appeal to the reason that the complainant being a salaried person, employed with the Municipal Corporation, Pune, would not have withdrawn any amount from his salary bank account, for a period of five (05) months at a stretch, the salary is the only source of income and livelihood. Opposite parties have chosen not to challenge the contentions and allegations made in the complaint, for the reasons best known to them. The contents of the affidavit, the account statement and the notice of the All India Consumer Protection Committee, corroborate and prove the contentions and allegations made in the complaint”, states judgment of forum president V K Shinde and member Kshitija Kulkarni.