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The Dharwad District Consumer Court imposed a fine of Rs 85,177 on the Haliyala Bharat State Bank branch for dishonoring a ‘cheque’ written in Uttarakhand-Kannada.

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Vadirajacharya Inamdar, an English professor from Dharwad in Karnataka, decided to withdraw Rs 6,000 from his savings account. For this he wrote a check at the State Bank of India branch in Haliyala. But, as it was written in Kannada, the bank branch rejected it.

Questioning this, Inamdar filed a petition in the Dharwad Consumer Court. The trial court said, ‘There is more than 9 lakh rupees in the savings account of the petitioner. He has given a check to withdraw 6,000 rupees.

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The rejection of the check on the ground that it was written in Kannada is like a dereliction of duty. Therefore, the petitioner has to pay 85 thousand 177 rupees as relief and penalty, it ordered yesterday.

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