The menace of loan recovery agents harassing people has seen a rapid increase with the Mumbai police filing two cases in the past 24 hours. In one case, a 38-year-old from Kurar, Malad East ended his life due to the incessant harassment over recovery of a loan he had never taken. In the other case, a Bandra resident filed a complaint after recovery agents sent his morphed images to his friends and relatives after he defaulted on EMIs. This is the second case of suicide in the past two months over harassment, humiliation through sharing of morphed images and blackmail by loan recovery agents.

The Kurar case

Sandeep Koregaonkar, who worked for an imitation jewellery manufacturer, was chased by loan recovery agents who kept calling and abusing him and also shared his morphed photos with his friends and colleagues, which made his life increasingly difficult. This even after he told the callers that he had not taken a loan.