AHMEDABAD: A 36-year-old woman from Satellite accused two recovery agents of a private bank of grabbing her hands and forcefully confining her and her two kids in the house after she and her husband failed to repay five EMIs on their business loan.
In her FIR, the woman said that she and her husband had taken a loan of Rs 12 lakh from Kotak Mahindra Bank. She told police that they had repaid 27 EMIs. However, due to financial crisis brought on by the coronavirus-induced lockdown, they were unable to pay five EMIs totalling Rs 5 lakh.
In her FIR, she states, “I was home with my two kids around 12.30 pm on Wednesday when bank recovery agents Ashish Desai and Varva Rabari barged into my house near Shyamal crossroads. They told me to keep quiet, grabbed my hands and forced me to sit. They made me call up my husband. They told him that I was in their custody and they would not free me till he came home. Then they began abusing him loudly."
She told police, “Hearing their voices, two of my neighbours rushed to my house and asked them to leave. However, they began abusing my neighbours while demanding money from me.”
She alleged that they threatened to kill her. “As my kids were at home, I was very scared. So, I called the police control room.” The Satellite police reached the house and nabbed the two agents.
The accused have been booked under the charges of wrongful restraint, molestation as they held her hands, uttering of abusive words, criminal intimidation and abetment.