Over 50 women from Narikurava community living in the
footsteps of the Vallimalai near Kallavi in Krishnagiri district lodged a
complaint on Monday with the District Collector T.P. Rajesh and also
the Superintendent of Police S.R. Senthil Kumar that they were defrauded
by an Andhra-based micro finance company.
In a
petition submitted to the authorities, the Narikuravas said that they
had avail themselves of a loan of Rs. 15,000 from the micro finance
company after paying a processing fee of Rs. 1500 on September 24, 2010
and settled the loan amount on December 23, 2011 along with interest.
They
alleged that after the prompt repayment of loan, some representatives
of the same company approached and promised to give Rs. 20,000 as loan
for 65 women members of our community within a week.
Believing
their words, each one of them paid Rs. 1500 as processing fees on
December 23, 2011. They also took signatures and thumb impressions on
blank promissory notes and never returned to the village.The women never
availed the second round of loan from the micro finance company.
But,
all of a sudden, Harinath Reddy, said to be a Divisional Manager of the
micro finance company filed a case against them at the Uthangarai
Judicial Magistrate Court using documents signed by them. The company
officials also informed the court that they had already served legal
notice to the women during April 2013. But the women said that they had
not received any such notice.
The women came with their babies and submitted petitions to the authorities as well as to the media.
