‘Taarak Mehta ka Ooltah Chashmah’ writer Abhishek Makwana commits suicide; family alleges he was a victim of cyber fraud and blackmail

Abhishek Makwana, who was one of the writers of ‘Taarak Mehta ka Ooltah Chashmah’ committed suicide. He was found hanging in his flat in Kandivali on November 27. As per a report in Mumbai Mirror, police have said that he had mentioned ‘financial troubles’ that he had been facing for the past many months in his suicide note. The family of the writer has alleged that he was a victim of cyber fraud and blackmail.

The Charkop police had registered an accidental death record and statements of his family are also being recorded. Abhishek’s brother Jenis revealed that Abhishek’s email records revealed financial fraud.

Jenis told Mirror, “I checked my brother’s mails because ever since he passed away, I got multiple phone calls from different numbers demanding to be paid back loans he owed someone. One call was a number registered in Bangladesh, one in Myanmar and others were from different states of India.”

He further said, “From what I understood from the email records, my brother first took a small loan from one of the ‘easy loan’ apps that charge a very high rate of interest. I looked at the transactions between them and my brother closely after that. I noticed that they kept sending small amounts despite my brother not applying for the loans. Their interest rates are as high as 30 percent.”

An official from the Charkop Police said that they have approached the bank for the transaction details and the phone service providers for the call data records but right now there is no solid evidence of the fraud or that the company was harassing the deceased.

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