HC denies police protection to nurse in loan repayment case | Hyderabad News

Hyderabad: Telangana high court has declined a nurse’s plea for police protectionfrom nine private banks, including small banks, which she alleged were harassing her to repay loans her deceased husband obtained from them.Claiming ignorance of the loans availed by her husband and how the loan amounts were spent before his death, the woman sought relief.However, the evidence provided by the banks proved that the loans were obtained using her pay slips, and amounts totalling 50.5 lakh were credited into her account. The monthly EMIs were also deducted from the same account.Based on the documentary evidence, the high court stated: “Her plea is wholly misconceived apart from being an abuse of the process of law”, while dismissing her plea. The high court also imposed a 2,500 fine on the woman for misleading the court.While the woman claimed that her husband took her payslips and bank statements for purchasing some articles, the judge pointed out that she could not claim ignorance of having availed the loan without her knowledge, given the available evidence. “As per the evidence, loan amounts were credited to her account, and EMIs were also paid from her account. Thus, her claims of being ignorant of the loans and also being harassed by the banks are invalid,” the high court ruled, while disposing of the case recently.The high court also questioned the woman, a resident of Jawaharnagar and currently working as a nurse at a private hospital, about how she was unaware of the EMI payments before her husband’s death and after his death when she claimed that the bankers started harassing her from the tenth day of her husband’s death.The woman informed the court that although she was a beneficiary of the loans, her salary was not eligible for the loans. She also claimed that she submitted multiple representations to police seeking protection from the bankers, but police did not act on her complaints. In view of her claims and the evidence produced before the court by the banks and police, the court said that it could not direct police to provide protection to the woman and fined her.