What started as a laugh riot over the phrase “Saven Thursday six Harendra sixty” on a government school cheque has now spiralled into a two-in-one scandal — a crash course in bad English and an unexpected case study in how not to run a bank.

Sources have confirmed that the Rs 7,616 cheque from Government Senior Secondary School, Ronhat, which turned the Education Department of Himachal Pradesh into a national joke, was not even filled by the principal himself. It was written by a teacher, while the overworked principal, perhaps running on deadlines tighter than grammar rules, signed it after checking only the numerical amount. The words, brimming with spelling inventions that would give dictionaries a nervous breakdown, slipped through unchecked.

But if the school’s negligence provided t

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