March 29: A total of 22 cases have been registered with District Administration Office Banke against loan sharks. 

Out of the total cases related to usury, fifteen cases have reached the court, reconciliation(milapatra) has been done in two cases, two have been sent to the police, one loan shark has not come into contact and two cases have not been probed yet, according to Banke DAO.

Banke CDO Bipin Acharya said the district does not have serious problems of loan sharks. “Banke does not have big problems of loan sharking as in the eastern Nepal. And we have forwarded the action against loan sharks on a regular basis,” Acharya informed. 

CDO Acharya said that usury cases that have reached the court will be settled by the court itself.
Following the government call to the loan shark victims to register their cases, Banke DAO had begun a probe into usury cases.