Mumbai: As the town continues to witness an increase within the variety of harassment instances involving mortgage restoration brokers, the Mumbai police have lastly taken a step to handle the problem.
A devoted group of 12 cops has been fashioned to analyze the suicide of a 38-year-old man from Kurar, Malad East on Might 4 and comparable incidents.
The groups have left for Odisha and New Delhi to seek out the mortgage restoration brokers, employed by mortgage apps, whose harassment allegedly led to the suicide. In response to cops, as a part of their restoration course of, the mortgage sharks usually resort to harassing and slandering the debtors by sharing their morphed pictures or movies with their household and pals. Unable to take care of the continual harassment and blackmail, many have died by suicide, identical to the Malad man, who had not even taken a mortgage.
Somnath Gharge, deputy commissioner of police, Zone 12 mentioned, “We now have fashioned groups involving two police inspectors and ten police constables and are looking for the accused.” Most of those mortgage sharks function from exterior Maharashtra.
In the meantime, the Kurar police have registered a fourth case of a person being cheated by the mortgage restoration brokers. A 36-year-old-man, working as a LIC agent residing in Shivaji Nagar, Kurar, Malad had downloaded an software to extend his CIBIL Rating- a 3-digit numeric abstract of an individual’s credit score historical past, score, and report, and ranges from 300 to 900. The nearer the rating is to 900, the credit score of a person will get higher.
On April 26, he borrowed 3,500 from the appliance. Nonetheless, instantly after Might 2, he began getting calls to repay the mortgage and the callers even shared a hyperlink to pay the cash.
“Nonetheless, the hyperlink was not energetic, so the LIC agent referred to as the quantity again and requested to share any checking account quantity to repay the mortgage. Accordingly, one account quantity was shared with him and he paid the mortgage quantity. Instantly, he realized that the individual deleted the account quantity as soon as the cash was obtained,” mentioned a police officer from Kurar police station.
Later, the sufferer began getting calls once more to repay the cash. He was even threatened by the individuals on the telephone that if he doesn’t pay the cash, they might make his obscene video and add it on social media.
“The accused went forward and even uploaded an obscene video morphed by them of the sufferer,” mentioned a police officer.
The Kurar police have registered a case for dishonest, punishment for legal intimidation, and below varied sections of the Data Know-how Act, 2000.
Within the first case reported on Might 4, an imitation jewellery employee died by suicide over the alleged harassment of mortgage restoration brokers.
On Might 8, a personal firm worker who had taken a mortgage of 3,800 was requested to pay 7000 by restoration brokers, however when he refused, they circulated his morphed pictures over a mortgage of 3,800.
On Might 10, within the third case, a 36-year-old man had downloaded an app referred to as Jane coin Mortgage app. He had utilized for a mortgage; nonetheless, his request was rejected; and later, he was given 6,362 as a mortgage although he had already deleted the appliance.
“The sufferer paid round 11,004, nonetheless, regardless of that his morphed pictures had been circulated amongst his contact listing. He was threatened and demanded to pay one other 5,000 which he refused,” mentioned a police officer.
In the meantime, the Dahisar police and Samta-Nagar police have additionally registered such instances not too long ago.
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