Telangana CM’s daughter reaches out to family of Chinese loan app victim

Naveen S Garewal

Tribune News Service

Hyderabad, February 28

After the Chinese loan app scam hit the state leading to some people committing suicide for being humiliated before relatives and family for being unable to return small loans, the Telangana Police have cracked down and arrested many people, which includes some Chinese nationals to stop illegal methods of extraction and blackmail.

The move got a shot in the arm today with former Nizamabad MP and sitting MLC K Kavitha coming forward to help the family of a man who recently committed suicide. She called on the family members of G. Chandramohan, a victim of a loan app scam and assured all help to the family.

Kavitha, who is the daughter of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR) and shares his political legacy with her brother and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) working president KT Rama Rao, announced that the victim’s wife Saritha will be helped in securing a job. Kavitha also extended help to support the victim’s three daughters in their education.

The victim, Chandramohan, had committed suicide earlier this year after the Chinese loan app company allegedly extracted details of people known to him from his phone contact list and circulated messages about his loan default. Embarrassed the victim took his own life. The 36-year-old had taken a loan of Rs 60,000 from instant apps but was unable to pay it back.

Taking to Twitter, Kavitha expressed her condolence to the family. Today again she tweeted, “The Chinese loan App Scam that took the precious life of Chandramohan had left a deep void in the life of Saritha and their daughters. Today, I met the family and extended my support to them”

She has assured the family that she would support the victim’s daughter up to graduation and also help them whenever they faced any hardship. Kavitha also assured Saritha that she can always reach out to her in case of any distress.