Suvabrata Majumdar, who was arrested in connection with alleged preservation of his dead mother’s body, was granted bail and admitted at Pavlov hospital for treatment of schizophrenia on Saturday.

Meanwhile, the New Alipore branch of State Bank of India from which Suvabrata had allegedly withdrawn the money from his mother’s pension account in a highly questionable way violating all bank rules is in a quandary after the matter became public.

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Though the bank authorities are tight-lipped about the alleged flip-flop, a senior official of the concerned bank, however, conceded that a probe has been launched to look into any shortcomings and fix the same, if any.

The question which has raised the eyebrows in the bank circles is how Suvabrata had gained access to withdraw the money from the pension account of her mother who had died three years back.

An officer of a nationalised bank said on condition of anonymity, as per rule, the payee has to be present to give his or her signature or thumb impression in the presence of the concerned bank employee at some point of time.

But there may be some exceptions if he or she is too infirm or sick to give the required assent, the bank employee has to take the initiative to get the required clearance from the payee in person or the signature of a gazetted ranking officer in the life certificate.

Interestingly, Bina Majumdar who was an FCI employee used to receive a pension of approximately Rs 50,000 per month. The charge against Suvabrata is that he had withdrawn money in a fishy way.

Close on the heels of tumbling out “preserved” body of deceased Bina Majumdar ( 88) from a deep freezer allegedly done by her son Suvabrata Majumdar, many uncanny things tumbled out on Saturday from the James Long Sarani residence as arrested son turned out to be a victim of “schizophrenia-like”, as confirmed by Institute of Psychiatry on Saturday.

“It is confirmed that Suvobrata is suffering from an element of schizophrenia-like. There is no doubt about it. Apart from this, he is also suffering from audible hallucination- a thought that is not in consistent with the reality but betrays one’s nerve fearing losing someone who is very dear.

He needs to be admitted to a government mental hospital for a thorough treatment,” Pradip Saha, director of Institute of Psychiatry told The Statesman.

Police too in pursuit of unravelling the mystery behind the alleged preservation of the body had got hold of many Russian language books.
Books on anatomy from his residence as well too gave whiff to his alleged repertoire in body preservation.

Though the police investigating the case is non committal on jumping to any conclusion, they, however, said that all angles were being investigated.

“Bank authorities would also be called for interrogation on the pension withdrawal by the deceased’s son by using the debit card despite her absence.

His alleged bid to take thumb impression to withdraw mother’s pension is also being probed,” said an officer of the Behala police station. Though the “gain” angle is under lens, the police is, however, certain that Suvobrata was mentally deranged.

The apparent puzzle in the case, said an investigating officer, which is a concern for the police is that the deceased’s son’s argument of a belief in winning a royalty by gaining the patent through a path-breaking discovery of “making dead alive”.