India, Dec. 17 -- A debt-ridden farmer from a remote village in Chandrapur district was forced to sell his kidney in 2024 in a bid to repay loans taken from moneylenders. The rate of interest charged by the moneylenders was so steep that the farmer Roshan Sadashiv Kude's total liability on loans worth Rs.1 lakh has reached Rs.74 lakh, and even the Rs.8 lakh he had received by selling a kidney was not enough to settle the account, Kude told Hindustan Times.

"I lost my kidney to repay the loan. I have nothing left. If I am not given justice, I will be forced to take an extreme step along with my family in front of the agriculture ministry," Kude, who lives in Minthur village under the Nagbhid tehsil, told HT, appealing to the state governm...