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Presenting the facts as it from the media reports.

1. Virender Basoya, a 25-year-old businessman in Delhi, hanged himself to a ceiling fan and died. His wife
said he was depressed as he had not been able to exchange Rs 12 lakh worth of old currency notes, money
he had received as payments. (Indian Express)
2. In Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, 70-year-old Ratna Pillai died waiting in a bank queue. Distressed over the
long queue, he approached the bank manager, and collapsed. (The Hindu)
3. Rajesh Kumar, a 56-year-old bank manager in Haryana's Rohtak district, died after working three days
and nights at his co-operative bank, handling large crowds. When the security guard opened the door,
Kumar was found dead. (Hindustan Times)
4. 70-year-old Ishteyak Ahmad died waiting in a bank queue in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh. (Times of India)
5. Jagdish Panwar, a 62-year-old tea seller in Rajasthan's Sikar district, died of heart attack as he was
stressed over not having cash for his daughter's wedding. The Sikar administration says local banks haven't
received cash from the Reserve Bank of India for two days. (Indian Express)
6. Sheik Basheer, 35, an auto-driver in Nizamabad district of Telangana, immolated himself and died because
a financier refused to accept his old currency notes as loan repayment for his vehicle. (IANS)
7. Mohammad Shahzad, a manual labourer, died waiting in a bank queue in Meerut. It was the fourth
consecutive day he was standing in the queue to try and exchange his currency notes. (The Hindu)
8. In Bhind district of Madhya Pradesh, an ex-serviceman, Babulal Valmiki, 70, collapsed just 100 metres
away from the bank. He was declared dead at the hospital. He had gone to exchange old currency notes
worth 12,000. (The Weekend Leader)
9. "It was a long queue and he was said to have been waiting for hours," said a government official on the
death of a septuagenarian, Ram Chandra Paswan who died in a bank queue in Palamu, Jharkhand. (Indian
Express)
10. In Ballia, Uttar Pradesh, Suresh Sonar died of a heart attack after failing to exchange currency notes
despite spending hours at the bank. His family said he was distressed as money was needed for his
daughter's tilak ceremony. (Press Trust of India)
11. In rural Pune, a bank peon, Tukaram Tanpure, 53, died of a massive heart attack. His colleagues said he,
like everyone else, was stressed handling large crowds and working 12 hours a day. (Hindustan Times)
12. In Maharashtra's Nanded district, Digambar Kasbe, 60, died after collapsing in a bank queue. He had been
standing for hours. (Hindustan Times)
13. Lavkush, 20, died in Jharkhand's Bokaro district because of the economic stress caused by demonetisation.
His daily wager father had been unable to get work because of demonetisation. (IANS)
14. When Lavkush's grandmother Lakshmi, 70, heard of her grandson's death, she died of shock. (IANS)
15. In Siddipet district of Telangana, Balaiah, a 45-year-old farmer, died after he mixed pesticide in his food.
He had been trying to sell his agricultural land but was stressed because its price came down from 6-7
lakh per acre to 2-3 lakh after demonetisation. He was under debt. (Press Trust of India)
16. In the incident in Siddepet above, Balaiah's 65-year-old father Galaiah also died. Balaiah's wife and son are
in hospital. (Press Trust of India)
17. Saud Ur Rehman, 48, died in a bank queue in old Delhi after waiting for hours. It was his second day of
trying to exchange old notes. "He would reach the branch around 5 am and wait for hours in queue, but by
the time his turn would come, either the bank went out of cash or the counters closed," said a family
member. (Press Trust of India)
18. Khaliq Hasan, 56, collapsed and died in a bank queue in Bareilly. His family members said he was
stressed due to demonetisation. (Press Trust of India)
19. Deepak Shah, 60, died after collapsing in a bank queue in Mumbai. (Indian Express)
20. Sanjay Prajapat, 23, collapsed and died after rushing home to fetch his father's Aadhaar card so he could
exchange old notes at the bank. (HuffPost India)
21. Vijaya Lakshmi, 70, died in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh as she entered a bank to exchange her
500 notes. (The Hans)
22. Dharani Kanta Bhowmik, a 56-year-old teacher in West Bengal's Cooch Behar district, died after queuing
up for three consecutive days to exchange currency notes. (Ananda Bazaar Patrika)
23. Four days before his daughter's wedding, Sukhdev Singh died of heart attack in Tarn Taran, Punjab.
Surjit Kaur, wife of the deceased, said, "Nobody was accepting the money we had saved for daughter's
marriage. My husband was tense due to this. He had complained of chest pain and died." (Indian Express)
24. Sumit, the 17-year-old son of a BSF jawan in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, committed suicide as his
mother won't give him small denomination notes. (Press Trust of India)
25. An infant died in Sambalpur, Odisha,after an autorickshaw driver refused to take the family to a hospital.
The family didn't have smaller denomination notes with them for the fare. A sick newborn was refused
treatment in Mumbai after the parents couldnt provide money in new currency bills. The infant
died(Report Odisha)
26. Lakshminarayana, 75, collapsed and died while waiting in a long queue for over two hours at an Andhra
Bank branch Secunderabad, Telangana. He had gone to deposit 1.7 lakh. The bank didn't have a separate
queue for senior citizens. (IANS)
27. In Aurangabad, Bihar, an elderly man, Surendra Sharma, died while waiting in a bank queue.
(Daudnagar)
28. Halke Lodhi, a farmer in Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh, committed suicide as he didn't have
money to buy fertiliser and seeds in time for the Rabi sowing season. "Had he got money from the bank in
exchange of his old notes, he would not have committed suicide," said his relative Bhupendra Lodhi.
(Hindustan Times)
29. Aziz Ansari, a 60-year-old factor worker in Meerut, died of a heart attack in a bank. It was his third day
of trying to exchange currency notes. (Times of India)
30. Raghunath Verma, a 70-year-old retired school teacher in Jalaun, eastern Uttar Pradesh, died at a bank
queue. His son Ravi said, "We needed 2 lakh for the marriage expenses. My father went to the bank for
three days. He had spoken to the bank manager many times asking him to help with the withdrawal and
exchange. The manager did not listen to him. He even fell on the manager's feet on Saturday." (Hindustan
Times)
31. In the Bulandshahr (west UP) branch of Kailash hospital, owned by union culture and tourism minister
Mahesh Sharma, a child died because the parents had only old currency notes. The hospital wanted them
to deposit an advance of 10,000 for admission. The hospital has denied the charge. (One India)
32. Rizwana, a 24-year-old woman in north-east Delhi hanged herself to the ceiling fan with her dupatta as
she was upset about not being able to exchange currency for three days. (Indian Express)
33. Some people are losing hope. A 50-year-old mother of two committed suicide in Gujarat after grocery
stores refused to accept old currency notes. In another similar incident, a 55-year-old woman in Telangana
committed suicide after learning that Rs 5.4 million ($79.500) in cash she had saved over the years was
useless overnight. (Times of India)
34. Shabana, a 20-year-old woman in Shamli (west UP) committed suicide. Her brother, returning home after
failing to exchange currency at the bank, found her hanging from the ceiling fan. (India Samvad)
35. In Chikballapur district of Karnataka, a 40-year-old woman committed suicide because 15,000 that she
had gone to the bank to exchange got lost or stolen. She had hidden the money from her alcoholic husband.
(New Indian Express)
36. In Raigarh, Chhattisgarh, a 45-year-old farmer was upset at not being able to exchange 3,000 at the bank
for three consecutive days. He needed to send money to his stranded children in Tamil Nadu. He came
home and committed suicide. (Press Trust of India)
37. In Limbdi town of Surendranagar district in Gujarat, a 69-year-old collapsed and died of heart attack
waiting in a queue to exchange currency notes at a Bank of India branch. (Press Trust of India)
38. An elderly woman living by herself in Kanpur died while counting her notes. Police found 2.69 lakh
worth of old currency notes alongside her body. (Dainik Bhaskar)
39. Also in Kanpur, a young man died of heart attack while watching prime minister Narendra Modi's
announcement of demonetisation. The man had received 70 lakhs in advance for selling his land just the
previous day. He had been trying to sell his land for months. (ABP News)
40. In Mumbai, a hospital refused to admit an ill newborn because the parents didn't have legal tender. The
child died. The government has allowed the use of old currency notes only in government-run hospitals.
(Mumbai Mirror)
41. Komali, an 18-month-old baby died in Vizag as the parents didn't have money to buy medicines. The
private hospital refused to accept old currency notes of 500 or 1,000. (Times of India)
42. Doctors in Mainpuri in Uttar Pradesh stopped treating one year old Kush, suffering from high fever, after
his parents ran out of 100 rupee notes. The parents brought him home, where he soon died, his father's
500 rupee notes now worthless. (Times of India)
43. In Pali district of Rajasthan, the ambulance wouldn't take Champalal Meghwal's new born to hospital as
he only had 500 and 1,000 notes. By the time Meghwal arranged 100 rupee notes, the child had died.
(Indian Express)
44. In Kushinagar district of Uttar Pradesh, a washerwoman came to know of demonetisation only when she
reached a bank to deposit two 1,000 rupee notes she had saved. When told these were no longer legal
tender, she died of shock. (Hindustan Times)
45. Kandukuri Vinoda, 55, a home-maker in Mahbubabad district of Telangana, committed suicide because
she thought her cash savings of 54 lakh were now worthless. She had earned the cash by selling land to
pay for her husband's treatment, daughter's dowry and buy a smaller piece of land. (Hindustan Times)
46. In Howrah, West Bengal, a man tense over demonetisation, murdered his wife Madhu Tiwary because
she returned empty-handed from the ATM. He felt she should have waited longer in the queue. (Times of
India)
47. In Kaimur district of Bihar, 45-year-old Ram Awadh Sah died of a massive heart attack as he feared his
daughter's would-be in-laws may no longer accept his old currency notes in dowry. He had saved up
35,000. (India Today)
48. In Thalassery, Kerala, 45-year-old KK Unni went to deposit 5 lakh for the second day, after being
unsuccessful on the first. He fell from the second floor while filling the deposit slip and died. An
employee of the state electricity board, the man had taken the money as loan just the previous day. Local
media reports said he was disturbed as he had not been able to change the currency notes. (New Indian
Express)
49. Vishwas Vartak, 72, died of a massive heart attack while waiting to deposit old currency notes at a bank
in Mumbai. (Hindustan Times)
50. Barkat Sheikh, a 47-year-old farmer had a heart attack waiting to exchange old currency notes in Tarapur
in Gujarat. He needed money to pay farm labour. (Press Trust of India)
51. There have been reports of people dying after standing in que for hours to exchange their old currency
notes. A 72-year-old man named Karthikeyan was pronounced dead Friday when he was brought to a
hospital in Alappuzha district in the southern India state of Kerala. The man reportedly stood in front of
State Bank of Travancore (SBT) branch for hours. (The News Minute)
52. In Udupi in Karnataka, Gopala Shetty, a 96-year-old man died waiting in a long queue at the bank, and the
bank hadn't even opened yet. (Times of India)
53. 69-year-old Vinay Kumar Pandey, a retired BSNL employee, died waiting in a queue at the bank to
exchange currency notes in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh. (Press Trust of India)
54. In Bhopal, a State Bank of India cashier died of heart attack. Bank employees have been putting in extra
hours and handling large queues. (Hindustan Times)
55. A businessman in Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh, felt chest pain soon after watching prime minister Narendra
Modi's 8 November announcement of demonetisation. He died before the doctor could arrive. (Financial
Express)

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