Archive · 7 Jun 2025
Undercover Cop Busts Farmer Loan Scam in Telangana
In Telangana, a police inspector went undercover as a farmer to catch agents scamming farmers.
These agents helped farmers with loans but then tricked them into transferring the new loan money, taking a cut.
The inspector, disguised in a lungi, gained the agents' trust and arrested them.
The agents targeted farmers, taking money from them by falsely promising help with existing loans.
Police arrested 34 agents in total, uncovering a widespread scheme that preyed on farmers' lack of financial knowledge.
An undercover police officer disguised himself as a farmer.
Agents were offering to help farmers clear old loans and secure new ones.
The agents would convince the farmers to transfer the new loan money to their accounts.
The agents would then keep ₹10,000 or more of the new loan.
34 agents were arrested across several mandals in Adilabad.
- Who
- Inspector Bandari Raju, 34 agents, and vulnerable farmers
- What
- An undercover operation to bust a loan scam targeting farmers.
- When
- Thursday (culmination of the operation)
- Where
- Adilabad district, Telangana
- Why
- To stop agents from cheating farmers in a loan scam.
Farmers
Agents
Financial Exploitation
Farmers
Farmers were being tricked and losing money due to the agents' scheme.
Agents
Agents were making large profits off the backs of farmers.
- Location
- Adilabad, Telangana
- Agents Arrested
- 34
- Amount Scammed (approx)
- ₹10,000 or more
- Undercover Officer
- Inspector Bandari Raju
- Mandal Locations of Arrests
- Gudihathnoor, Utnoor, Narnoor, Bela, Bheempur, Mavala, and Indravelli