Manager beaten up as UP bank runs out of cash

Muzaffarnagar, December 9

A bank manager was allegedly confined and thrashed by a group of angry customers after the bank ran out of cash here, the police said today.

As per the complaint filed by Anil Kumar, bank manager at a Punjab National Bank branch in Jasoi village, he was attacked by a group of 20 people yesterday after he announced that the bank had ran out of money, SHO Bhanu Pratap Singh said.

An FIR has been registered against 20 persons, including four identified accused, for assaulting the bank official and disrupting official work, he said. In another incident of raging dissatisfaction among people over lack of adequate cash in banks and ATMs, the road outside an SBI bank branch at Charthaval village here was blocked by irate customers last evening. — PTI