Bhubaneswar, April 28 -- A day after a 42-year-old man carried his sister's exhumed skeleton to a rural bank in Odisha's Keonjhar district as a proof of death to withdraw money from her account, the bank released the amount to him on Tuesday.

The man identified as Jeetu Munda, visited the Maliposi branch of Odisha Grameen Bank, a regional rural bank sponsored by Indian Overseas Bank (IOB), several times to withdraw Rs.19,300 from his sister Kalra Munda's savings account.

Jeetu Munda claimed that despite informing the bank about his sister's demise in January, the bank asked him to bring his sister to withdraw the said amount.

"I visited the bank several times. Though I told them that my sister had died, they kept insisting that I bring...