Loan shark victims brave inclement weather to continue protest

More than six dozen protesters, who have been spending their nights in tents, are suffering from headache, cough, shortness of breath, diarrhoea and pain in their eyes.

On May 1, when the world marked the International Workers’ Day, 70-year-old Ram Kawal Chamar was sitting quietly in a tent at Shanti Batika, Ratnapark with one arm in a plaster cast.