Rajkot: Eleven persons were booked for extorting money from a 37-year-old man as he had stopped paying interest to them on the money, he had borrowed from them.
Police said that the complainant Jayesh Joshi, who lives near SRP camp and works in a private firm, filed a complaint as the loan sharks continued demanding money even after taking away the possession of his house, bike and car.
Joshi had borrowed different amounts from the 11 people around two years ago. The 11 accused have been identified as Hitesh Pancholi, Milan Tatamiya, Chirag Patel, his wife Hetal Patel and mother-in-law Leela Patel, Vikram Khuman, Praveen Devariya, Umesh Patel, Sandeep Singh, Vikram Patel and Priyesh Dhanesha.
As Joshi had lost income due to the pandemic and other reasons, he stopped paying interests to the 11 lenders due to which he started getting threats from them. One of the accused – Pancholi – took away possession of his house and later forced Joshi to sell it off. He even took away Rs 3 lakh which Joshi had received as token amount. The other accused Dhanesha took away his bike while two other accused took away his car.
Even after losing his house and vehicles, when the threats continued Joshi lodged a complaint with Rajkot A Division police station.