Engineering student takes own life in Karnataka due to harassment by Chinese Loan App agents
Engineering student takes own life in Karnataka due to harassment by Chinese Loan App agents
A 22-year-old engineering college student in Bengaluru has died by suicide after being subjected to harassment by agents of a Chinese money lending app. The agents allegedly threatened to expose intimate photographs on the student’s phone due to his inability to repay the loan.
According to the police, Tejas, the victim, hanged himself with a stool at his residence in Jalahalli on Tuesday. The family members revealed that Tejas had borrowed money on behalf of a friend, who was supposed to make the monthly loan repayments, but failed to do so.
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It is reported that the loan recovery agents from the Chinese loan app visited Tejas’ home and proceeded to harass him. They even resorted to making threatening phone calls. Three days prior to the tragic incident, Tejas’s father, Gopinath, had requested more time to clear the outstanding dues, but the lenders showed no leniency.
On Tuesday evening, the app agents intensified their relentless phone calls, further threatening Tejas. It was following these repeated threats that he felt compelled to take such a drastic step.