Vartak collapsed outside the SBI branch in Thane while waiting to exchange currency. Pic/Sameer Markande

After two days of unexpected hardships brought on by the Wednesday announcement of currency devaluation, Friday was supposed to bring respite to a suffering populace. But it wasn’t how it panned out for 72-year-old Vishwanath Vartak, a resident of Thane, who while queuing up for the new currency outside an SBI branch, collapsed and succumbed to a heart attack. His family says it was on a whim that he decided to go get the currency changed; there was no need for it.