AP: Lord Simhadri Appanna Temple Receives Rs 100 Crore Cheque, Donor’s Account Holds Only Rs 17 – News18

In a surprising incident in Andhra Pradesh, a unknown person deposited a cheque for Rs 100 crore in the hundi of Sri Varahalakshmi Narasimha Swamy temple at Simhachalam near Visakhapatnam.

Officials discovered the cheque while counting the hundi collections on Wednesday. The cheque was found to belong to Bodepalli Radha Krishna of Visakhapatnam, who had an account at Kotak Mahindra Bank located on MVP Double Road in the same city.

The issue was brought to the attention of the temple’s executive officer, Trinadha Rao. He approached bank officials, who revealed that the account of the devotee who deposited the cheque had a balance of only Rs 17. The officials were surprised by the account holder’s audacious act of depositing a cheque for Rs 100 crore in Lord Simhadri Appanna’s hundi.

Bank officials are planning to register a complaint with the police, declaring the mentioned cheque as fake. They also take serious note of the situation in which the account holder intentionally issued a cheque for Rs. 100 crore despite being well aware that the account balance was only Rs. 17.

They have concluded that the account holder initially wrote the digit “10″ on the cheque and later added a number of zeroes to the right side of the digit to make it 100 crore. Bank officials are of the opinion that they will not encourage this type of mischievous behavior by their customers. They have stated that they will take legal action against the account holder involved after conducting a thorough investigation into the matter.