I believe signature is an entirely personal choice, only concern is that it should not be easily forged. Insistence on capital letters is legally untenable. Availing chequebook with thumb impression is a little tricky as RBI circular/IBA guidelines do not contain any specific modalities for this. Middle way is to have thumb impression attested by bank officials at the time of issue of chequebook itself. This has support in Pincha's judgment of CCPD also...
Long wait for adoption of biometric technology still continues.... Rajesh -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of jignesh thakur Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 10:29 PM To: accessindia Subject: [AI] signature for bank acount Dear friends, Today I went to open an account in SBI, I signed the form and completed other formalities. After that officer rejected my signature and he gave me reason that my signature has no small letter means all the letters ar capital letters. Now my problem was for me its tough to sign with small letter, so he told me that I must open an account with thumb impression. However after small disscussion I agreed for thumb impression, but he denied me check book, and told me with thumb impression one can not use check book. I did not have any circular regarding this so I gave up. So I request you to tell me 2 things: 1st one can not sign the form with capital letters? Second we can not get check book and other facilities with rthumb impression? Please share circulare regarding this as early as possible. Thanks in advance. Notice: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this email by error, please notify us by return e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Reserve Bank of India accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email.
