In a very unusual incident in Assam, according to reports State Bank of India (SBI), branch ATM in Assam’s Tinsukia district got infested with rodents.

As a result, notes worth 12 lakh got destroyed by the rodents, and Twitter has gone crazy over the incident.

 

 

According to reports, a private security firm had deposited Rs 500 and Rs 2,000 notes amounting Rs 29.48 lakh.

After which ATM machine malfunctioned, On June 11, when technicians arrived to fix the ATM, they found currency notes of Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 torn to pieces. The overall cash destroyed by the rats amounted to Rs 12,38,000, reports the newspaper. Undamaged currency notes amounting to Rs 17.10 lakh were recovered from the ATM.

At first, rumors spread that it was HDFC atm, which forced the bank to clarify the situation.
They twitted,

#FakeNews Pls note this is NOT an HDFC Bank ATM. The below photograph has been doing rounds on social media for some time. Like we have said earlier, this isn’t an HDFC Bank ATM. This seems like a prank but unfortunately showing our bank in a bad light. Please do not believe in it.

Later on, it was clarified that it was SBI ATM, not HDFC.

Twitterati started tweeting hilarious comments on the incident.

“Looks like the mice are having a demonstration of their own,” says one Twitter user. “The money launderer’s version of ‘My dog ate my homework,’” says another.

 

 

Money is Honey but not for the rats.
‘Surgical Strike’ by mice on SBI ATM, whopping Rs 12 lakhs destroyed.

In a nearly unprecedented & shocking incident, notes worth over Rs.12 lakh were found shredded apart into pieces, allegedly by mice, in an ATM in Tinsukia, Assam. pic.twitter.com/sv0cGeCOL2

— Ketan Kundaliya (@kundaliyaketan) June 19, 2018

 

Another guy said,

@kundaliyaketan
Money is Honey but not for the rats.
‘Surgical Strike’ by mice on SBI ATM, whopping Rs 12 lakhs destroyed.

In a nearly unprecedented & shocking incident, notes worth over Rs.12 lakh were found shredded apart into pieces, allegedly by mice, in an ATM in Tinsukia, Assam.

According to The Hindu, Mr. Mahanta said.
“When the engineer and other officials opened the ATM on June 11, they found destroyed notes and also found a dead mouse inside the ATM,”

 

 

While people are going crazy over the incident, the question is how did the rats get into a fully secured ATM machine. Were there any holes in the machine?