00:10Bizarre video captured the stunned reactions as a shirtless Indian villager casually walked
00:15through town carrying his sister's corpse after a bank refused to release her funds
00:19without proof of her death. The villager Jita Munda had reportedly been trying for weeks to
00:25withdraw the equivalent of $211 from her account but was repeatedly denied by the bank due
00:31to failing to provide a death certificate. Local outlets reported that Munda had made
00:35several visits to the bank and was told to bring the account holder in person even after
00:40telling them she had died. Munda allegedly struggled to understand the process and out
00:44of frustration exhumed his sister's remains as proof of death, trekking nearly two miles
00:50to the Odisha Grameen bank with her body. Cell phone video shows local law enforcement confronting
00:55the man in front of a dozen baffled onlookers as his sister's body lay on the ground in front of
01:00the bank.
01:01One officer explained that the villager was illiterate and didn't understand the process
01:05of receiving funds from a deceased family member's bank account and went on to say that bank employees
01:10hadn't properly explained the required steps to the man.
01:21Authorities believe Munda is the sole surviving claimant to the account funds as the listed
01:26nominee had also passed. Officials later got involved and told the villager that the funds
01:31would be released through legal channels. His sister's body was reportedly reburied with police supervision.
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