A farmer from Maharashtra’s Chandrapur district sold his kidney in Cambodia after a Rs 1 lakh loan from illegal moneylenders ballooned to Rs 74 lakh due to exorbitant daily interest and penalties.
Roshan Sadashiv Kude, who had been struggling with repeated crop losses, borrowed Rs 50,000 each from two moneylenders to start a dairy business by purchasing milch cows. However, before the venture could take off, the cows died and his crops failed, plunging him deeper into debt.
Despite selling two acres of farmland, his tractor, vehicles and gold ornaments to repay the loan, the moneylenders continued to harass Kude and his family while levying steep interest and daily fines of up to Rs 10,000. As a result, the original loan amount spiralled to Rs 74 lakh, forcing the desperate farmer to take the extreme step of selling his kidney.