Woman ends life due to ‘harassment’ by loan recovery agents near Bengaluru, 7 booked

On Monday, agents from 2 microfinance firms allegedly arrived astatine Yashodamma’s location to request the repayment. When she promised to set the magnitude and repay the loan, they allegedly verbally abused her, questioning wherefore she had taken retired loans erstwhile she did not person the means to repay them. The agents insulted her successful beforehand of the nationalist earlier leaving, arsenic per the complaint.

Later, Kumar received a telephone telephone from neighbours that Yashodamma had died by suicide. Kumar alleged that the agents, portion abusing his mother, had asked her to dice if she was not capable to repay the loan. The constabulary filed a lawsuit nether Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 108 (abetment to suicide) and 190 (unlawful assembly) against 7 microfinance steadfast agents.

In different instance, the Ramanagara agrarian constabulary arrested a indebtedness betterment manager of a concern institution for allegedly abusing and assaulting a 40-year-old woman.

The arrested accused has been identified arsenic Raghu, the manager of New Opportunity Consultancy Private Limited. The victim, Munivenkatamma, approached the Ramanagara agrarian constabulary connected January 18 and filed a complaint.

A constabulary serviceman said Munivenkatamma had availed a indebtedness of Rs 52,000, and she was paying an EMI of Rs 2,810 each month. However, aft she did not wage EMIs for 3 months, Raghu allegedly came with 7 others and assaulted Munivenkatamma connected December 20. Munivenkatamma moved to her mother’s location successful Magadi taluk.

Following this, Raghu allegedly went to her location and posted a announcement stating that she would beryllium arrested if she did not repay the loan.

After learning astir it, Munivenkatamma filed a ailment with the constabulary connected January 18. The constabulary registered a lawsuit nether BNS sections 126 (wrongful restraint), 351 (criminal intimidation), 352 (Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace), and 74 (use of transgression unit against a pistillate with the intent to outrage her modesty).