ISLAMABAD: In a bizarre act, two sisters in this central Punjab provincial city in Pakistan withdrew Rs1.7m ($17,000) from their bank account and burnt the currency notes in front of the bank branch, eyewitnesses confirmed yesterday.
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 last Monday to withdraw Rs1.7m from 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,” Butt said.
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.
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.
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