8216;Dead8217; man draws salary!

Sheikh is making endless rounds of the civic body and meeting officials to ensure the error is rectified at the earliest.

8220;I8217;m thankful to God that at least my wife,who is suffering from high blood pressure,was not informed about it.

But this is ridiculous. How they can declare me dead and on what basis?8221; he asked in a complaining voice.

Sheikh joined Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC

in 1981 and has six years left for retirement. He is currently posted at the G-south ward office.

The clerical error brought trouble for Sheikh,who had taken a Rs 1.25-lakh loan from Municipal Corporation Bank for his daughter8217;s wedding in 2006.

8220;Since then I have been paying an installment of about Rs 3,000 per month. A sum of Rs 35,000 was yet to be paid.

When bank officials learnt about my 8216;death8217;,they deducted the pending amount from my account without my knowledge,8221; Sheikh said.

Joint Security Officer of BMC S V Kulkarni said,8221;We admit that our staff committed a mistake and we are rectifying it. It happened mistakenly. Sheikh was irregular on duty and this might be one of the reasons why the clerk may have marked him as dead.8221;