According to a 16 October report published in the New Delhi edition of the Hindustan Times, a Ghaziabad resident who earns Rs12,500 a month, had Rs48.7 crore in his bank account for some time on Thursday, thanks to a "printing error made by ATM network" of Punjab National Bank .

The baffled account holder called up the customer care number and then informed his bank branch about the error. Soon his actual balance was reinstated--Rs23,487.

Instead of being thankful, the bank officials accused the account holder of creating panic situation and threatened of legal action against him. How ridiculous.

This is what the bank's assistant general manager (Meerut circle) Vineet Jain had to say:

There was an error in the ATM slip printing which was reported and identified at 9.30 am and rectified at around 12.30 pm. There is no such entry of ambiguous amount in his account and we have checked it thoroughly.

This person has created a panic situation out of this technical printing error and should have approached the bank to find out the exact reason. We may go in for legal action against him.

May be the account holder should have withdrawn the money and left. Only then could have it been a situation worth panicking.