The court asked the bank to open the house and verify if there was a cat.

The Kerala High Court, in an interim order to the State Bank of India (SBI) in a case related to loan recovery, stated, 'The bank has seized the debtor's house, where his cat is also present. The bank should search the house, and if the cat is found, return it to the owner.' The matter is related to the non-payment of a bank loan. The next hearing in the case will be on October 6.

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Actually, Muhammad Nishad Cherthala and his wife had taken a loan from the bank. In return, they had mortgaged their house, but they were unable to repay the loan. He asked the bank for more time to repay the loan, but the bank seized his house under the SARFAESI Act.

Nishad's entire belongings and his cat were

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