Rautahat, March 26 -- Loan shark victims in Rautahat have returned to the streets, alleging that the police, local administration and courts have failed to provide justice against predatory lending. At a press conference organised in Chandranigahpur, victims shared harrowing accounts of losing ancestral properties and facing legal harassment despite repaying debts multiple times over.

Narayan Ghimire, a resident of ward 4 of Chandrapur Municipality, shared his ordeal regarding local trader and lender Rambabu Prasad Kalawar. According to Ghimire, he borrowed Rs500,000 in November, 2019 but has since paid back Rs2.7 million. "Even after paying five times the principal, he refused to return my legal bond and instead filed a court case again...