Hyderabad: Man ends life, harassment from mortgage apps suspected

The deceased, who has been recognized as Rajesh, lived together with his spouse.

The relations of Rajesh, who labored with a web-based grocery retailer, informed the police that he was being harassed by the mortgage restoration brokers of on the spot micro mortgage apps.

Bachupally police have initiated a probe into the demise after registering an FIR underneath Part 174 (unnatural demise) of the Code of Legal Process (CrPC).

On a writing board on the deceased’s dwelling, the police discovered an attraction to the federal government to dam on the spot mortgage apps identical to pornographic movies and on-line video games are banned. This was purportedly written by Rajesh and is believed to be his final phrases.

Based on police, the moment mortgage app executives morphed his images and threatened to share them together with his contacts together with abusive messages.

Chatting with indianexpress.com, Assistant Commissioner of Police (Kukatpally Division) A. Chandra Sekhar stated the preliminary investigation revealed that Rajesh had availed of on the spot micro loans ranging between Rs 3,000 and Rs 12,000 from as many as 9 on the spot mortgage apps and owed a complete of about Rs 60,000.

“In the previous couple of days, he was being pressurised to repay the loans. On his telephone, there are chats the place he was being threatened to pay up. There’s additionally his morphed picture, which they threatened to ship to his contacts,” the ACP stated, including the investigation is underway.

Rajesh was alone at his dwelling on the time of the incident. His physique was discovered by the constructing watchman, who was alerted by Rajesh’s spouse as she couldn’t attain him on the telephone. She was away at their native place in Vijayawada for the Ganesh Chaturthi festivities in the previous couple of days.

Telangana has reported almost a dozen deaths associated to alleged harassment from on the spot mortgage apps since 2020.