Overview

• The FIR lodged at Division No. 4 police station names the branch manager and two unidentified employees under charges of criminal intimidation, abetment to suicide and criminal conspiracy.
• Jasbir Singh and Kuldeep Kaur had repaid 55 EMIs on a Rs. 2.35 crore loan against property before one missed instalment led to over 200 daily calls and shop visits by recovery agents.
• In a video and suicide note, the couple accused IDFC-FIRST Bank officials of mental harassment and humiliation that they said left them hopeless.
• Police have sent the couple’s bodies for postmortem examination and are verifying their harassment claims as part of the ongoing probe, with no arrests made so far.
• The case echoes a similar June incident in Gujarat and has reignited scrutiny of aggressive debt-recovery tactics in India’s private banking sector.