In a bizarre turn of events, a woman in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh was in for a rude shock when she received a power bill of a whopping Rs 3,419 crore of late, reports the PTI.
Shockingly, the figure is 26,300,000 times more than what the bill was actually supposed to be.
However, the Madhya Pradesh government-run power company blamed "human error" and issued a corrected bill of merely Rs 1,300.
The incident took place at Shiv Vihar Colony in the state’s Gwalior city.
After Priyanka Gupta received the bill, her father-in-law fell ill hearing the development. He was finally rushed to a local hospital.
Gupta's husband Sanjeev Kankane said his father fell ill after seeing the huge figure on the electricity bill for the domestic consumption for July.
The bill, released on July 20, was cross-verified through the portal of the Madhya Pradesh Madhya Kshetra Vidyut Vitran Company (MPMKVVC) but was found to be correct, he claimed.
The bill was later corrected by the state power company, said Kankane.
MPMKVVC General Manager Nitin Manglik blamed a human error for the huge power bill and said action had been taken against the employees concerned.
"An employee entered the consumer number in place of the units consumed in the software, resulting in the bill with a higher amount. The corrected bill of Rs 1,300 has been issued to the power consumer," he said.
The state’s Energy Minister Pradyuman Singh Tomar told reporters that the error has been rectified and action is being taken against the employee concerned.
