Delhi:
A BPO employee in Delhi has alleged that his mother was assaulted repeatedly by a private moneylender.
The 75-year-old widow from Uttar Pradesh had to pay a huge price for a paltry loan of Rs 4,000 that her son took from a private lender in the industrial town of Sahibabad.
The woman's son Prashant Gupta has now alleged that the moneylender, Sudesh Gupta, has been sexually harassing his mother for the loan he took in April 2007.
Prashant had borrowed the money for returning the loans he took from others for his marriage. Though the amount was paltry, the interest rate was very high and Prashant returned Rs 12,000 with interest in July 2009.
"However, Gupta threatened me with his contacts in the police and forced me to sign a paper in 2009 on which it was written that I had taken Rs 50,000 from him," Prashant alleged.
"Despite the fact that we returned the money, he and his two sons kept threatening us with dire consequences," Prashant alleged. "When we approached the police they refused to register a case. The cops were acting hand in glove with Sudesh," Prashant alleged.
The contract which Sudesh had allegedly made Prashant sign had the condition that the latter would pay him Rs 1 lakh in six months. "Sudesh even forced me to sign some blank cheques," Prashant claimed.
After this Sudesh used to frequently visit Prashant's house and allegedly threatened to kill the latter's two-year-old daughter. "It was during this time that he molested my mother. She was molested twice or thrice".
Sudesh's sons - Kapil, 28, and Praveen, 29 - helped his father in the heinous crime. "I wrote several e-mails to Ghaziabad's Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) but did not get a reply. The last mail to the SSP was sent Wednesday morning," the BPO employee alleged.
After the cold response from the SSP's office, Prashant also approached the CBI and CID, but to no avail.
When MiD DAY contacted Ghaziabad SSP Raghuvir Lal, he expressed ignorance about the case. "I am not aware of any such case in my area. I don't get time to check my e-mails. If the complainant personally comes to meet me, we would definitely look into the matter and initiate a probe."
To his letter to the CBI, Gupta got a reply on July 9 which read: "The complaint has been received by the appropriate authority, which will process the communication for appropriate action. The CBI will inform you about the action at the earliest."
When MiD DAY contacted Sudesh Gupta, he said, "All the allegations are baseless. He borrowed money from me and is not returning it now."
The 75-year-old widow from Uttar Pradesh had to pay a huge price for a paltry loan of Rs 4,000 that her son took from a private lender in the industrial town of Sahibabad.
The woman's son Prashant Gupta has now alleged that the moneylender, Sudesh Gupta, has been sexually harassing his mother for the loan he took in April 2007.
Prashant had borrowed the money for returning the loans he took from others for his marriage. Though the amount was paltry, the interest rate was very high and Prashant returned Rs 12,000 with interest in July 2009.
"However, Gupta threatened me with his contacts in the police and forced me to sign a paper in 2009 on which it was written that I had taken Rs 50,000 from him," Prashant alleged.
"Despite the fact that we returned the money, he and his two sons kept threatening us with dire consequences," Prashant alleged. "When we approached the police they refused to register a case. The cops were acting hand in glove with Sudesh," Prashant alleged.
The contract which Sudesh had allegedly made Prashant sign had the condition that the latter would pay him Rs 1 lakh in six months. "Sudesh even forced me to sign some blank cheques," Prashant claimed.
After this Sudesh used to frequently visit Prashant's house and allegedly threatened to kill the latter's two-year-old daughter. "It was during this time that he molested my mother. She was molested twice or thrice".
Sudesh's sons - Kapil, 28, and Praveen, 29 - helped his father in the heinous crime. "I wrote several e-mails to Ghaziabad's Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) but did not get a reply. The last mail to the SSP was sent Wednesday morning," the BPO employee alleged.
After the cold response from the SSP's office, Prashant also approached the CBI and CID, but to no avail.
When MiD DAY contacted Ghaziabad SSP Raghuvir Lal, he expressed ignorance about the case. "I am not aware of any such case in my area. I don't get time to check my e-mails. If the complainant personally comes to meet me, we would definitely look into the matter and initiate a probe."
To his letter to the CBI, Gupta got a reply on July 9 which read: "The complaint has been received by the appropriate authority, which will process the communication for appropriate action. The CBI will inform you about the action at the earliest."
When MiD DAY contacted Sudesh Gupta, he said, "All the allegations are baseless. He borrowed money from me and is not returning it now."
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