85-year-old Hyderabad man locked up in bank, rescued after 18 hours
India Today
An 85-year-old man in Hyderabad was forced to spend an entire night in a bank locker after employees mistakenly locked him up inside the premises and left for the night.
A bank staff in Hyderabad accidentally locked up an 85-year-old man inside a locker on Monday. The old man spent the whole night inside and was rescued the next day.
On Tuesday morning, when the bank opened around 10.30 am, the staff found the old man inside the locker room.
The man identified as V Krishna Reddy, who is suffering from diabetes and other illnesses, was forced to spend an entire night inside the bank locker.
He was in a state of shock and the police shifted him to a hospital. Following the incident, the bank has been blamed for negligence.
Reddy, a resident of Jubilee Hills Road No 67, had gone to the Union Bank Branch in the posh Banjara Hills area around 4.30 pm on Monday to collect some property from the locker.
After verification, he was sent inside the locker room. He did not realise that it was closing time for the bank. And the bank security staff, on the other hand, also did not notice him inside the locker. They shut the bank and left for the night.
Meanwhile, the panicked family started searching for Reddy and approached the Jubilee Hills police to lodge a complaint.
