Banks hiring tough guys to recover cars

They said they were employees of Standard Chartered Bank and that I had defaulted. They asked me to hand over the vehicle to them. Using abusive language they boarded the car and asked me to drive to Kashmir Road where the bank’s warehouse was.

They used such abusive language in front of my son that I almost broke into tears. They continued to harass me for one hour till the bank officer Abdul Nasir arrived,” Babbur said while talking to The Nation.

Interestingly two policemen on patrol in the area Shahid Mahmood and Muhammad Azam came on the scene and prevented the tough guys from roughing up Babbur and his son. They stayed at the scene the whole time and asked them to show their identity, which they failed to provide.

The bank officer later came and showed his identity. He announced that he was seizing the car and Babbur could contact the bank later. Babbur insisted that he had not defaulted. But he could not prove anything as the file that could prove his innocence was at home in Model Town. Nasir in the end made him agree to proceed to the bank’s Tufail Road branch.