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Moneylending
Video: This is how a moneylender ‘punished’ a client for supposedly failing to pay back his loan
Scroll Staff
· Nov 24, 2017 · 01:00 pm
Tamil Nadu has stringent laws against moneylending at exorbitant rates. Why does it persist then?
Vinita Govindarajan
· Oct 29, 2017 · 06:30 am
