Greed Never wins

In a village there lived a farmer Kishore Das with his family. He grows paddy and seasonal vegetables in his field. They were living happily enjoying the life. Kishore’s income was sufficient to fulfill the needs of his family and with small savings too. Actually he was Commerce graduate and in order to help his father he dropped the idea of doing job in the city and continued his life in the village. So his thought was different from the other villagers. 

One day a man named Mahesh Lal came to the village. He introduced himself as a bank agent . He met the Sarpanch and other Panchayat members and told them about a scheme “ Less input large output “ run by a private cooperative bank. Villagers could earn more. 

It was like lottery. Each family have to pay suppose Rs.1000 a month. Suppose there are 25 families in that village. It means Rupees 25000  would be collected by the agent ie Mahesh Lal. The bank put 10% compound interest on the wholesome amount and that resultant amount was equally distributed to each family . Additionally one of the family will be chosen as ‘ luckiest family of the month’ by lottery and given a gift like TV, radio, bicycle, kitchen appliances etc. Obviously it was an attractive policy. All agreed including Kishore Das because he want to know what actually it is. 

Initially in the first 3-4 months everything was going smoothly, people were earning interest and some were happy with the surprisingly gifts. But later on changes observed. The villagers had paid next 4. months installments but no interests gained. The Sarpanch was trying to contact the agent Mahesh Lal but he gave each time new excuses. He convinced by saying that they would get 5% more interest after 6 months. In greed people stopped agitation but Kishore Das understood that there is something fishy. 

He decided to go to city and directly meet that agent in the bank office. He didn’t found that there is no one named Mahesh Lal in that bank. He showed the documents regarding the scheme to the bank officials but they told him that all documents are forged. Kishore Das well understood that Mahesh Lal had done forgery with the innocent villagers. 

He returned to the village and told them that how that agent had cheated everyone. Everyone were under great shock because they had lost much including belief. Kishore Das didn’t lost hope and decided that any way he would find the cheater. 

He thought that as like their village, might be other villages being cheated by Mahesh Lal by different identity. So he and his friends decided that they will go to different villages and find out whether same incident took place or not. 6 villagers reached their destinations and introduced themselves as traveller hawkers there and stayed for about 1 week. They found similar cheating cases by a man with other names. 

After that they gave their original identities to the villagers and decided to catch that cheater red handed. They came to know that in a village a man was running a lottery game. They were confident that he was that culprit. So they reached that village and lived with some families as their relatives. They met the culprit as customer and interested in investment in the lottery game. He was trapped. The local residents with the help of these outsiders called police and hand over that cheater to them. 

The cheater’s real name was Hari Om Sharma a resident of another village. He confessed that he had cheated about 500 people and never caught because every time he changed his identity and in disguise he cheat and carry out these scams.

Hari was sentenced 5 years jail and ordered to return the money he cheated. The police was in search of him from a long time and had kept reward of 20000 rs. Hari Om was caught red-handed only due to efforts and intelligence of Kishore Das so people proposed his name for the reward.

But Kishore didn’t accept the cash prize because it became possible only due to combined effort of all villagers. So he proposed that a computer center should be built to educate villagers about online government schemes, banking, education and others. 

Moral of the story :

Crime never pays. 

There is no short cut of earning money. 

Education is very important. 

Unity is strength.