The incident came to light on Monday after 59-year-old Jitu Munda from Dianali village went to the Malliposi branch of Odisha Grameen Bank with his sister’s remains, having exhumed them, to withdraw her savings of Rs 19,300, prompting a government probe. (Credits: Social media/ Express Photo)

Days after a tribal man carried his sister’s skeleton to a local bank in Odisha’s Keonjhar district, ostensibly to prove she had died, the state government said its initial probe found “negligence on the part of the bank officials”.

“The CCTV footage of the incident that the district collector and I watched for over an hour suggests negligence on the part of the bank officials.…