Giving back land and life

A quiet morning in Lapaliya, a small village in the Amreli region of Gujarat – semi -sunny, semi -cloudy -. Kannubhai Jadavbhai Lungriya while dipping in a familiar squeak charpai (Hop Cot) on the patio of his house, moaning under the weight of weaving bed. Nevertheless, for the first time in the years, the mind feels light. No threat anymore. No repeated strokes anymore. There is no longer a fear of losing its territory (about 12 acres), which feeds its family for generations.

Kannubhai Jadavbhai, the village of Kannubhai Jadavbhai, who was settled in the village of Lapaliya in the Amreli region of Gujarat, said, orum I finally feel safe – not from illness or old age, not the fear of losing the soil. Just a few steps away, his 65 -year -old wife Champaben swung back and forth on a wooden swing, and an agreement was reached.

Mr. Lungriya says 30 Bighas (about 12 acres) fed his family for generations.

In the last three years, it has been claimed that the couple’s eldest sons Shailesh had been harassed by a man with credit. Ik We left the village fear of our lives and went to live with our young son Jignesh, who sold a fork team in the face, ”.

In June, Mr. Lungriya approached Sanjay Kharat, Amreli Regional Police Director and announced his ordeal. “Within three days after meeting SP Saab, the long -standing problem was solved.

Between January and June 2025, the Gujarat police enrolled 315 cases against 756 usurers for operating illegally. According to data shared by State Minister Harsh Sanghavi in Gujarat, the police arrested 638 as part of their efforts to reduce illegal money loans.

Only Amreli police, 11 cases in the first six months of 2025 and arrested 23 people. According to Mr. Kharat, for the last few months, the police helped five families back their lands or homes from their credit sharks, and now four more cases are under investigation.

Payment price

A narrow, dusty road leads to a aging structure with more than six consecutive rooms, a large open courtyard and an empty cattle hut with more than six rooms. The couple suffer from age -related disorders and permanent knee pain, they can no longer look at cattle and even cleaning the house every day, he says that it has become a tiring chore.

The problem with the land says that the couple of Mr Lungiya started with the La 3 Lakh loan that they both did not receive. Mr. Shailesh, his son, who quietly leaned the money from Mr. Teriya, who was a prominent local money in the village, was quietly borrowed money.

“We only learned the loan when Mr. Teriya appeared at home one day and told her that our son owed her money. We had to pay us.

The interest rate of the borrowed amount was 10% per month and the Lagregiya would be united if he could not pay the pair. “Mr. Teriya began to threaten the couple and seized their territory, Lig says Lungriya.

Mr. Lagriya, who was fear and helpless, received 17 Lakh product loans from a public sector bank in July 2023. He said he paid La 12 Lakh to place his son’s loan and used 5 lakh for agricultural purposes. He claims that Mr. Teriya wants another La 10 Lakh as the “last settlement ..

When they could not pay, they asked them to transfer their land on behalf of them. “I signed a Banakhat in August 2023, L Lungiya says. The couple also claims that the debtor prevented access to agricultural land last April and supported Mr. Shailesh.

Amreli is one of the first regions when the police began to help the borrowers back from illegal usurers in Gujarat.

The Amreli region Acknowledges that the Police went beyond the call of the police. “Yes, financially and mentally – we go beyond our routine responsibilities to support those who are pushed aside by credit sharks. The debt is never a trap designed to end. This is not related to the improvement; it is about full acquiring. First money, then land and finally desire to live.”

Although there was no number of suicides that could be attributed to the debt in Gujarat, Mr. Kharat said, “In such a case, a man borrowed money to pay for his mother for cancer treatment. He died during treatment. He drowned by the reimbursement burden and died by suicide. The debt seized his land.

SP says the police intervened after the father reached them. “After solving the issue, the father told us that he did not want the land back – he was very old for farming and no one left in his family. Only asked for the cleansing and peace of the debt. The financier agreed to pay 26 lakh to the man.

While the courts arrest and produce the defendants in court, especially when they intervene in the issues of land or property – they intervene in civil disagreements.

Mr. Kharat said the police asked the victims to bring solid evidence such as legal documents, notary publics, and even call records.

“It helps us to maintain a clear position that this is not just a civil dispute, but also a criminal offense, or he says.

The first information reports were presented in accordance with Chapter 308 of Bharatia Nyaya Sanhita. 2011 Gujarat Monetary Loan Laws Laws were also evoked.

It was kept away from mango gardens

With a car from Amreli for one and a half hours, Rameshbhai Solanki’s mango garden in the Zar Village near Dhari, the mango tree cuts more than 8 acres of land. When the Mango season ends a few weeks ago and the trees are now naked, Rameshbhai says he can sell the harvest for the first time in four years.

His family was forbidden to enter the facility after leaning Ramesh’s brother Jaysukh, La 50 Lakh, his brother Mithil Faldu from a local doctor Dhari town. The brothers claim that Faldu seized the control of the orchard and harvested and sells mangos without sharing any snow with the Solanki family. The family was reserved by the police for illegal money loans after opening a fir in March 2025.

Looking at his brother and his son Rahul, Jaysukh says, ım I received a loan to meet the losses of 37 acres of losses from the onion crop by a cyclone, ”Jaysukh says. “The agreement was to repay the manager with a 3% interest in the third year. But only 30 days later, he was fortunate began to put me pressure on me to repay the loan. At that time he knew our financial situation. Then he asked us to transfer our land on behalf of his back.” Mango gardens say the production of yields of 15 to 20 lakh every summer.

While the orchards brought losses from their hands and other crops, the Solanki family had to slip to Ahmedabad. There, they sell fruit and vegetables between 2,000 to 3,000 a day.

The family said they approached Faldu in 2023 and 2024 to resolve the debt and take back the land. The family refused to pay the amount to regain property. The brothers standing in the middle of their territory, ‘I do not want to sell my orchard,’ they remember. They add that the orchard is among those who have a 250 -meter traditional well in the region and are very few with existing water in all seasons. Rameshbhai explains, ız We’ve been stunned by the answer. Each Bigha is at least 16 lakh and 18 Bigha makes this rough 2.88 crore, ”he explains.

The Solanki brothers also approached Kharat at the SP Jayvir Gadhvi assistant Chalala Police Station against Faldu. The brothers said, “Within 11 days, the issue was solved. We only paid back the principal amount and we took our land back. We never thought it wouldn’t come today. Karda

In April 2025 they regained the property and harvested the product in the summer months. Rameshbhai shares that his wife promises 50 grams of gold decorations to cover the educational costs of four children. “Jaysukh had received the loan, but even my share in the garden was taken. I lost at least 8 lakh a year for four years, or he adds.

Rameshbhai Solanki, his brother Jaysukh Solanki and the second son of the second, in the mango garden in the dice near Dhari in the Amreli region. | Photo Loan: Abhinay Deshpande

Going after credit sharks

Gujarat’s business -oriented culture usually directs people from special money loans to search for loans to support their initiatives. Many of them avoid banks because they have no property certificates, as they are recorded on behalf of a family president and are not divisible in common families.

“Many lenders turn into credit sharks and exploit the borrowers to the ruins. This is especially common in rural and semi -urban areas, K

Minister Sanghavi accepts the problem and says to the illegal lenders’ economic predators that exploit the poor, who owe families and destroy future. The government adds that the government has taken historical measures by seizing the property, assets and tools of organized credit rackets. Fir’s were recorded and reserved under the most challenging legal provisions ”. Terrorism and Organized Crime Control (Gujctoc) Law, 2015, called.

Sanghavi says that no one will survive. According to him, 779 cases were recorded against the lending of 1,814 money last year and 1,763 were arrested. He says it is not just a driving, but a decisive war against credit sharks that have been rented and ruined numerous life ”.

SP Valay Vaidya (Dhari) Assistant, while some victims begin to stand out, encouraged by these interventions, many of them are afraid of retaliation from strong local loamants, he hesitates.

DGP Vikas Sahay, “For the past one and a half years, in cooperation with the government and collaborative banks in the local police stations were organized about 700 loans. This initiative thanks to this initiative, we provide people to access legitimate and safe financial support.” When these efforts were combined with the increasing awareness of government plans, it enabled citizens with honorable alternatives to permanently relieve their lakhs and the exploitative debt cycle.

When Babubhai came at home one day, we told the loan that our son owed him to money. He said we had to pay us, dedi he said.