Out of the blue: These village folks became multi-millionaires overnight

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₹221 crore in his bank account. Interestingly, he learnt about this bounty only after receiving an income tax (I-T) notice. He learnt about this when he received a tax notice informing him about the huge inflow in his bank account.

He said that he had lost his PAN card in 2019 and somebody perhaps misused the same to open an account in his name, and later deposited money into it. Although this was a rare instance, there have been a few similar cases where village folks received a bounty out of the blue. Similarly, a small farmer from Paithan Taluka in Aurangabad district Dnyaneshwar Janardhan Awate received ₹15 lakh in February last year.

He believed that this was a bounty from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He thought this to be the same ₹15 lakh that — according to opposition parties — was promised by PM Modi to every citizen of this country once the black money is brought back from overseas accounts. This was a mistake wherein his bank account was mistakenly given to transfer the fund allocated to the Pimpalwadi gram panchayat under the 15th Finance Commission.

He was later told to give the money back which he had spent on the construction of his village house. There was a similar incident where a 30-year-old tutor Ranjeet Das of Bihar's Bakhtiyar village allegedly received ₹5.5 lakh in his account due to bank error in 2021. He refused to return the money initially even as several notices were served to him.