Woman files case against People's Bank

SANDASEN MARASINGHE

A woman filing a plaint before the Colombo District Court alleged that a minor's deposit account opened in her name 22 years ago at the People's Bank was disowned by the bank.

D. L. C. Maduwanthi Dissanayake (33) of Nawala Road, Rajagiriya filing the plaint cited People's Bank as the respondent.

The plaintiff submitted before Court that her father opened an Extended Deposit Account - Minors in her name on January 26, 1981 with a deposit of Rs. 15,000. She had the pass book with her and after 22 years her account should have Rs. 385,000.

Further the plaintiff stated that her father was not in good health and when she wanted to withdraw the money, the Bank informed her on June 20, 2000 that she had no account under the instant account number in her pass book.

The account number she produced belonged to someone else, the bank said.

She prayed before Court to declare that she had right to receive Rs. 385,000 from the bank.

The People's Bank filing answers stated that the plaintiff had not account under her name but it was someone's else's account number she was submitting. So the defendant prayed before the Court to dismiss the plaint.

Colombo Additional District Judge Ayeshani Jayasena put off the case for June 3, 2009.