Ahmedabad: Harassed by moneylender, woman consumes sedatives

AHMEDABAD: A 53-year-old woman from Vastrapur has filed a complaint with city police alleging harassment by a moneylender and that to escape the pressure she had overdosed herself with sedatives and tried to commit suicide.
Bina Goradia, resident of Kalayan Tower in Vastrapur, also stated in her FIR filed with Vastrapur police on Thursday that she had taken a loan of Rs 15 lakh from a moneylender named Kanu Thakor, a resident of Chandlodia village in Ahmedabad, at five per cent monthly interest. Even though she had paid Rs 12 lakh to him, he was still seeking Rs 30 lakh and unable to bear such usury, she had consumed the sedatives.
“Though I had paid him Rs 12 lakh him, he now began asking for Rs 30 lakh. Thakor also threatened one of my relatives,” Goradia said in the FIR.
Goradia, a mother of three children, further stated that she had separated from her husband 11 years ago and had filed a case of domestic violence and alimony against him. Due to the pressure of legal cases, Goradia had allegedly began suffering from depression and she is under medication.
As pressure of legal cases and of recovery by the moneylender began mounting on Goradia, she took nine sedative tablets on Wednesday. She told her son that she had taken the sedatives and also wrote a note in a book. Learning that his mother had tried to commit suicide, her son rushed her to Civil Hospital in Sola where her condition is now stable.
Vastrapur police registered a case against Thakor under Gujarat Moneylenders Act and for uttering abuses and criminal intimidation.