Even after a month Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced demonetisation of ₹500 and ₹1,000 notes, finding a bank or an ATM without a queue is a major challenge in any part of the nation.
Where there is a crowd, ruckus is quite obvious. In the last couple of days, there have been several incidents of stone pelting and road blockade by irate customers, unable to withdraw their money.
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However, this doesn’t justify the act of a security guard who started firing gunshots to disperse a crowd gathered outside a bank.
In a new video emerged in social media, on Tuesday morning, a security guard posted at the HDFC Bank branch in Budhlada town of Punjab, fired at least three times in the air to disperse the crowd that had gathered to withdraw money.
Watch: Bank guard fired shots in air at HDFC, Budhlada, Punjab. 1st shot fired at 36th second, few more after that. Day 28, #Demonetisation. pic.twitter.com/F1Sv69ZokF
— Pratik Sinha (@free_thinker) December 6, 2016
According to deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Gurmeet Singh, “the crowd got so impatient that the glass doors of the bank developed cracks”.
“Out of fear, the guard fired a gunshot in the air to disperse the crowd,” he said.
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Barwala SHO Umed Singh said Anil Kumar, the guard at the HDFC’s Barwala branch, had had been booked under Section 285 (negligent conduct with respect to fire or combustible matter).
Singh said that no one was hurt in the incident.