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Sister fraudulently withdrawing money from mothers account


12-Mar-2023 (In Family Law)
Sir, My mother is alive and mentally incompetent. we, 3 sisters take care of her. I am the younger one and went to my in-laws house after getting married last year. My mother have Rs. 10,00,000/- fixed deposit on her name for her needs and health issues. In addition to that fixed deposit, we kept Rs. 1,00,000/- in her savings account for her requirments and emergency needs.We appoint our second sister as care taker to my mother and are offering Rs. 5000/- to her as salary and Rs. 2,500/- for my mother medicines. As she is divorced and seperated from her husband, She fraudlently planned to swallow the entire amount of our mother and started withdrawing more money than her salary. She drew around Rs. 80,000/- in this way. Hence we bloced our mothers ATM card by giving detailed objection to the bank manager. Now we request you to guide us the way to stop my sisters fraud.
Answers (3)

Answer #1
796 votes
Madam,
It is an internal family settlement. No outsider will enter into your family affair and give advice. You may remove your sister and get outsider appointed for doing job to serve your mother. Monitoring and surveillance of your mother health and your 2nd sister illegal more amount withdrawal must be met in a strategic way. It is better to money order whenever she needs money by removing your 2nd sister to operate bank account and ATM card etc.,

Answer #2
816 votes
Firstly keep the ATM card with you. You can inform your mother regarding the excess withdrawals made by your sister. I think your fear is regarding the fixed deposit of your mother. You may have a fear that your sister might do something behind your back and realize the FD & take the entire amount. For this also you can put your mother on alert & also inform the concerned Bank Manager to inform you all if your sister or mother comes to bank to realize FD . Tell Bank manager about all that had happened and also how your mother is vulnerable to the influences & may be cheating of your sister. With the facts that you have you cannot go to Police. Going to Police is not advisable. It is your internal matter.It will also disturb you all.
Answer #3
534 votes
Hi
Since the matter involves your mother and sisters, it is better to solve the matter amicably.
Or else, you can approach the court under senior citizens act and ask the court to penalise the sister for fraudulent withdrawal of funds.
Better to resolve the matter amicably in presence of relatives/friends as interests of your mother who is aged and mentally incompetent is involved.

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