When this doctor paid Rs 4 lakh at a toll booth

He stopped at a toll booth and decided to swipe his card for Rs 40. However a sleepy toll attendant decided to add a couple of zeroes more and the amount that was finally swiped was a whopping Rs 4 lakh. The doctor whose card was swiped was in for a rude shock when his message read, " Rs 4 lakh had been debited from his account." He ended up paying Rs 3,99,960 more.

The incident occurred at the Kochi-Mumbai National Highway near Udupi in Karnataka on Saturday. A doctor from Karnataka raised the issue with the toll attendant immediately, but the latter refused to accept his mistake. An argument broke out for two hours and when the doctor realised that this was going nowhere, he decided to rope in the cops.

He went up to a police station in Kota, around 5 kilometres from the toll plaza. He was accompanied back to the toll gate with a police constable. The toll gate personnel then admitted that the attendant had wrongly entered the amount and promised to reimburse the entire amount. When the doctor was offered the reimbursement by cheque, he refused to accept the same. Finally, the doctor was reimbursed the amount of Rs 3,99,960 in cash.

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