27-05-2025
Haryana mass suicide victims had Rs 20 crore debt, got death threats: Relative
The deceased, Praveen Mittal, and his family were receiving constant death threats due to their inability to repay a loan, his maternal uncle's son told India Today TV, adding that the family was burdened with a total debt of Rs 20 Sunday, Praveen and six of his family members were found dead inside a car parked outside a house in Haryana's Panchkula. After local residents found all the family members unconscious inside the car, they managed to pull out one person who was still breathing. Before dying, the man revealed that his family was "drowning in debt." "I will die in five minutes as I have also consumed poison," he told Puneet Rana, a local from Barwala in Hisar, Praveen had shifted to Panchkula 12 years back. He owned a scrap factory in Himachal Pradesh, which was later seized by the bank due to unpaid loans, according to Praveen's cousin Sandeep Agarwal.
The mounting debt had forced the family to suddenly leave Hisar and move to Dehradun."For five years, he did not stay in touch with anyone," Sandeep told India Today TV. Sandeep also pointed out that the death threats further prompted them to move out of present, they were living near a Saketri village in Panchkula where Praveen was driving a taxi to make ends meet. "The bank had already seized Praveen's two flats, his factory and his vehicles," Sandeep told India Today said that he had spoken to Praveen five days earlier, and added that his cousin had requested him to perform the last rites in the suicide note he left behind. "Police have said that Praveen left behind a suicide note, in which he requested that I perform his last rites," he told India Today
