this news is both sad and strange. it’s unbelievable what a sick mind can do. i wonder if the bank manager knew about their mental condition. if he did, i believe, he should not have handed over the money to these two sisters. no?
GUJRAT: In a bizarre act, two sisters withdrew Rs1.7 million in cash from their account on Thursday and burnt the currency notes in front of the bank branch in Jhelum.
Jhelum’s District Police Officer Afzal Butt confirmed the incident and said that 40-year-old Naheed and 35-year-old Rubina of the city’s Bilal Town area visited the Chak Nasa branch of National Bank of Pakistan three days ago to withdraw Rs1.7m from a fixed deposit account.
Due to procedural and other issues involved, the bank manager told the sisters that their request could not be met immediately, the police officer said.
So, the two women visited the bank branch again on Thursday and asked the manager to give them the money.
“The sisters were handed over the money at about noon. They took the currency notes outside the branch and simply set them afire,” Mr Butt said.
An eyewitness told police that when a shopkeeper and a passer-by tried to stop the sisters from burning the notes, the elder one whipped out a pistol and said they had every right to do whatever they wanted to. Soon, a large number of people gathered around the two women, only to look at the currency notes burning. Police later arrived at the scene and collected the ashes.
According to a source, the women had deposited Rs2.8m with the bank about a year ago after selling the property they had inherited from their father Raja Muhammad Iqbal, who was killed in mysterious circumstances a couple of years ago.
Mr Butt said the sisters were unmarried and resided separately from their two younger brothers.
All the siblings are suffering from mental ailments, according to some residents of their neighbourhood.
Jhelum is such a beautiful place. i dunno where she got the gun from. may be they got it in inheritance. if it was a legally obtained weapon, i wonder why they allowed a mentally disturbed person to own a gun.
it is a crime to burn currency. but these women are mentally disturbed.
well, this way they didn’t commit any crime. it was their money. yes, burning currency is a crime.
yes.
lol…haath paauuN seNkne ke liye alaao lagaayaa hogaa!
sure, it would have been a better option if they were in their right state of mind.
Aap ko Pakistan main kon jal raha hai, kon jalaya ja raha uss ko bari fikar rehti hai.
By the way did you read the news about Indian diplomat who got caught for immigration fraud. Nahi? Seriously nahi ya phir you chose not to start a thread on that. Magar yeh thread to bohat hi important thi
EXACTLY!..this is what i said in my original post. well, it could be an oversight because these women were not under any kind of treatment. their mental illness may have been off-the-record! … what a waste of money.
i dunno if the money exchangers will be able to cash those unburnt bills [notes] at 50% of it’s value or something!
KKF when I told about this news to my mother she said no one is foolish enough to burn money without a reason.In her opinion someone (relatives or maybe those who knew about the money)was after their wealth and they could not come up with another idea to get rid of the money.And if a person is acting in a strange manner why do people say they are insane or mentally sick?
wallaho 'aalam bissawaab…the issue of mental health was mentioned by the reporter who reported the incident. he said that both the sisters and their brother are mentally unstable.
ab Hqeeqat kia hai, yeh to Allah hii bahtar jaantaa hai.
because it’s sad and waste of money. the mentally unstable women will have to worry about their livelihood.
besides, it’s against the law also to burn currency notes as it is national asset and it costs money to print them. well, they did what they did…it’s over!
^ maybe they were inspired by the scene from the dark knight.
well, from wht it sound like, the sisters have some psychologic illbess. yeah sad because pakistan is a poor country and the money couldbe used to help.someone but at the end of the day, it was they money, whtever they felt like.
i dunno where she got the gun from. may be they got it in inheritance. if it was a legally obtained weapon, i wonder why they allowed a mentally disturbed person to own a gun.
