A 51-year-old man, an account holder of the crisis-hit Punjab & Maharashtra Cooperative Bank Ltd, died of a cardiac arrest after taking part in a protest last evening.
The man identified as Sanjay Gulati. For Gulati this was a double shock this year after he lost his job following the collapse of the Jet Airways six months ago. He had an account in the local Oshiwara branch of the bank and Rs 90 lakh deposited in the bank,
On Monday afternoon, he returned home to Oshiwara suburb after participating in a demonstration with some 200 other customers against the PMC Bank scam in south Mumbai.
As Gulati was eating, he suddenly suffered a cardiac arrest and was rushed to the nearby Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, where he was declared as brought dead, his neighbour Yetendar Paul said who was accompanying him in the hospital while he was taken.
According to another customer, Gulati and his family members hold deposits worth running into crores of rupees in the Oshiwara Branch of PMC Bank, which has been frozen after the Reserve Bank of India’s action last month. (UNI)
