SHG woman, micro-finance owner arrested for taking away cooking gas cylinder from house for defaulting in loan repayment
Police in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, arrested a micro-finance owner and a self-help group leader for forcibly seizing a cooking gas cylinder from a borrower's home. The suspects allegedly threatened the borrower's family after they defaulted on a loan payment.
Why it matters
This incident highlights the aggressive and often illegal debt collection practices employed by unregulated or predatory micro-finance entities in rural areas.
Dindigul district police have arrested the leader of a Self Help Group for women, Nagalakshmi, and owner of a micro-finance institution, Thiagarajan, on charges of taking away a cooking gas cylinder from the house of a woman, Sasikala, after she defaulted in repaying of SHG loan, in Batlagundu.
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