No, RBI didn’t say that you’d be penalized for keeping accounts in two banks.
A ‘supposed’ news is viral claiming you’d be penalized if you keep accounts in two or more banks. Almost all of the websites sharing this false info is using RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das’s photo along with the quote, claiming he said this.
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दो बैंक में खाता रखने पर लगेगा कड़ा जुर्माना, आरबीआई गवर्नर ने जारी करी नई गाइडलाइन pic.twitter.com/NT0ovammzu
— News 24 Bareilly (@ImAsimMalik) July 30, 2024
RBI Banking Rule: दो बैंक में खाता रखने पर लगेगा कड़ा जुर्माना, आरबीआई गवर्नर शशिकांत दास ने जारी करी नई गाइडलाइन https://t.co/0ZAX8A9SGJ
— ꜱᴋ ꜱᴀᴅɪQᴜᴇ ꜱᴀᴍᴀʀ (@MDSADIQ01291427) July 25, 2024
अभी की ताजी न्यूज देखकर सभी व्यापारी, पर्सनल अकाउंट होल्डर,ज्वाइंट होल्डर,सेविंग परपज होल्डर,और इतर ,सभी सदमेमे है, आरबीआई के एक अकाउंट नियम जारी करने पर, दो बैंक में खाता रखने पर लगेगा कड़ा जुर्माना, आरबीआई गवर्नर शशिकांत दास ने जारी करी नई गाइडलाइन https://t.co/4LgwyiWiPi
— Umesh Kamble (@UmeshKa66353462) July 25, 2024
Truth
This Claim is completely False. Neither RBI nor RBI Governor has issued any such guidelines. We have confirmed with the official RBI Spokesperson.
Usually such ‘supposed’ news are clickbaits. Websites, laden with popups/advertisements earn from traffic i.e. visits on their site/pages etc.and use interesting, disturbing etc kind of headlines so people out of curiosity open their site to read further which earns them money.
https://sarkariejob.in/rbi-banking-rule/
http://web.archive.org/web/20240805090552/
https://yojanaupdates.link/rbi-banking-rule/
https://govtnewsindia.com/rbi-banking-rule-for-more-than-1-account/
https://pangighatidanikapatrika.in/interesting-news/banking/rbi-banking-rule-ll-strict-penalty-will-be-imposed-for/article-9287
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