Ignore NPR option in SBI’s KYC form: Telangana high court

HYDERABAD: The Telangana high court on Monday asked a petitioner to ignore a mention about National Population Register (NPR) as one of the identity proofs for completing the customer identification process issued by SBI through a notification in January this year.
A bench of Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice A Abhishek Reddy said the anxiety expressed by petitioner Khaja Aijazuddin, an advocate, was highly-misplaced.SBI wanted to know its customers and listed various identity cards asking them to show at least any one of them to complete its know your customer (KYC) process. Aadhaar, ration card, voter ID, PAN card, driving licence, passport, etc., are among the many options that are available to the people and they can ignore the NPR option, the bench said.
“One among the options is NPR which need not be mentioned at all because the process of updating NPR has not yet commenced,” the petitioner insisted. The bench, however, told the petitioner that there are several dialogues in Hindi movies that have no meaning at all. Equating SBI’s insistence on NPR particulars with this, the bench advised the petitioner to ignore the NPR option. “It does not cause any loss to you even if you ignore it,” the bench said.