Bhopal: ‘Harassed’ by moneylenders, man kills self

The builder allegedly made another attempt on his life a few days ago but was rescued. The note was written before that.

A 36-year-old builder allegedly committed suicide at his home in Bhopal’s Arera Colony on Wednesday, because he was being “harassed” by moneylenders and friends who had given him loans, police said.

Rishabh Tripathi used a sari to hang himself in the bathroom, the police said. In a suicide note dated December 3, he alleged that he was being mentally tortured by moneylenders from whom he had taken a loan of Rs 50 lakh. The note said he had paid them more than Rs 50 lakh in interest alone, but they kept asking for more.

The note said that to repay the loan, he borrowed money from his friends, who, too, had started pressuring him to return it.

“I am neither dishonest nor a fraud,” the father of two sons, aged eight and two, wrote in the note, the police said.

The Habibganj Police have registered a case of abetment to suicide against five people. Officers admitted that Tripathi approached them a month ago, but the two parties promised to strike a compromise. Habibganj police station in-charge Sudhir Arjaria said that no arrests were made on Thursday as the five were absconding.

The builder allegedly made another attempt on his life a few days ago but was rescued. The note was written before that.

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