New Delhi. Bank plans are made to secure the future. People deposit the savings of the month little by little in the bank so that the amount can be increased by the interest received on that money. Imagine, if you forget to deposit money in the bank and suddenly you remember after 60 years, then what will be the amount of interest on your money? It might be difficult for you to guess. A similar incident has come to the fore. A son has found his father’s 60-year-old bankbook, along with a huge sum of money. Let us tell you what is this incident…
Actually, the father of Exaquel Hinojosa, who lives in Chile, South America, was saving money to buy a house in the 1960s and 70s. He had saved about 1,40,000 paise, which is worth about $ 163 as of today and Rs 12684 in Indian currency. This amount has been detailed in the bankbook of a now defunct credit union. After the death of his father, this book was kept secretly in a box for many years. One day suddenly Hinojosa found this book in his father’s belongings. Although this bankbook was said to be worthless, Hinojosa also has an annotation saying “State Guaranteed”. Let’s say, with interest and inflation, the value of the 140,000 monies his father saved is now estimated to be over 1 billion pesos, or about $1.2 million. According to Indian currency, this amount is 9.33 crores.
But this amount has become a big headache for the state and Hinojosa. Because now the matter has reached the Supreme Court. Hinojosa says that this money belongs to our family. My father worked hard and saved it. According to him, his family did not know that there was a bank book in the house till the time they got the bank book. Although several courts have ruled in Hinojosa’s favour, the government has appealed, saying that the fate of Bankbook will be decided by a final court.