Jaipur: Shopkeeper ends life after people didn’t repay loan, FIR filed

JAIPUR: A 30-year-old shopkeeper consumed poison and went to the Kalwar police station with a suicide note that several people took a loan from him but later refused to repay him last Saturday, leading him to take an extreme step.
The staff at the Kalwar police station quickly ferried Pawan Sharma, a resident of Bhambori Road, where he died during the treatment on Thursday.Sharma’s uncle Madhu Sudhan Sharma on Friday filed an FIR at the Kalwar police station against 11 persons, including Pawan’s father Prahalad Sharma for taking the debt and refusing to repay it later on.
As per the FIR, Madhu Sudhan Sharma has alleged that Pawan had a small shop near Pratapura. He had different loans to nearly 11 persons including Rs 26 lakh to one Mukesh Meena, Rs 90,000 to Nanu Nitharwal, Rs 2 lakh to a relative idenitfied as Kailash Sharma and Rs 10 lakh to his father Prahalad Sharma besides others.
The deceased’s uncle told police in his complaint that Pawan had briefly spoken to him about several people who took loans from him before assuring him of timely repayment. However, as time wore on, all of them turned down Pawan’s request to pay him back. He had incurred a lot of losses when people refused to return the money.
The FIR also mentioned about alleged threat given to Pawan when he knocked on the doors of the accused and asked them to repay the money, which compelled him to sell his plot.
Sub-inspector (Kalwar), Rameshwar Lal said that Pawan had come to the police station on January 1, “His condition looked fine when he arrived, we took him to the hospital for the treatment. He died later on,” he said.
The police said that an FIR was filed against 11 named persons under Section 306 (abetment to suicide) of the IPC. The FIR also included the name of Pawan’s father as one of the co-accused.