Everyone is saddened after the suicide of Saharanpur jeweler Saurabh Babbar. A condolence meeting was organized in the city lawn yesterday. In which a large number of people participated and tried to console the family of the deceased. During this time, those businessmen who owed money to Saurabh also reached the condolence meeting. After the condolence meeting, people were taking the name of the ‘big bullion merchant’ in hushed tones. It is being said that the son of this bullion trader ran away to Dubai with Saurabh’s Rs 7 crore.
According to the information received, Saurabh Babbar had formed a committee named Sai 8 years ago, which initially had 20 members and then later it increased to 25 members. All the members of Sai Samiti used to work together to help the poor people. People of the committee used to do public service work like organizing Bhandara, distributing free ration, donating in daughter’s wedding.
Sai Samiti member Vinay Chhabra told that Saurabh had met him recently. All the members of ours used to give ₹5000 every month in the name of the committee. On August 9, Saurabh came to me and gave me Rs 1 lakh collected by the committee. The committee had to pay a total of Rs 1 lakh 45 thousand. But he said that 45 thousand are left.
One question on everyone’s mind – why did Saurabh do this?
Everyone in the condolence meeting was only talking about why Saurabh Babbar did this? He should not have taken such a big step. He had to think about the child and the house. However, debtors were also worried about their money. They are afraid of losing the money deposited in the committee system. The committee’s time was over, the money was to be received on 12th August. But before that, Saurabh, troubled by the burden of debt, committed suicide by jumping into the Ganga along with his wife. The body of Saurabh’s wife Mona has not been found yet.
A person said that I had given some gold items to his (Saurabh) shop for repair, which included two bangles. The price was around Rs 2 lakh. He had asked to be taken on the 12th, but he committed suicide before that. We had given the gold in front of Saurabh’s servant whose name is Golu. We are trying to talk to Golu, but we are not able to understand anything right now. Don’t know what will happen now.
Who is this ‘big bullion trader’?
Another story came to light in the condolence meeting of Saurabh Babbar. The name of ‘big bullion merchant’ was coming on people’s lips again and again. It is being told that Saurabh Babbar used to work closely with a big bullion businessman and used to buy gold from this big businessman and give it to the committee members. Gold was yet to be given to more than 100 members, for which gold worth about Rs 7 crore had been booked from a big bullion trader. But the businessman’s son went to Dubai a few days ago with all the money. After this the bullion merchant refused to return the money/gold to Saurabh.
Servant Golu gave this information
At the same time, people also say that Golu, who works at Saurabh Babbar’s place, knows every secret. He knew everyone who came to the shop. Maybe he also knows the ‘big bullion dealer’. However, when the team of ‘Aaj Tak’ tried to talk to Golu, he told that I have known Saurabh Babbar bhaiya since he opened a jewelery shop 12 years ago. Saurabh bhaiya came to me at 2:00 am on the night of 9th August and gave me the keys of the shop and went away. I used to stay at Saurabh bhaiya’s shop throughout the day and go to my home to sleep at night. Saurabh bhaiya had come to my house to give the keys and since then he went missing. Saurabh Bhaiya had been running the committee for a long time and everything was going well, I don’t know what was the sudden depression that forced Bhaiya to do this.
According to Golu- Bhaiya used to run a Gold Committee which is also called Kitty Committee, in which a member gives ₹ 2000 every month. Similarly, 6-7 committees were running. It used to happen that the person whose committee was opened first would be given gold worth ₹ 25000 and after that his committee would end there. Bhaiya used to buy gold from the market itself and take payment, I don’t know from whom he used to take more goods because Bhaiya himself used to talk on the phone. I used to just go and bring money and bring gold from whoever Bhaiya spoke to.
Till now nothing has been known about sister-in-law (Mona). Before this incident, brother had sent me two photos and audio on WhatsApp, the photo was of the bridge of Haridwar and in the audio he was saying that Golu, show this to everyone, we are leaving the world. Bhaiya never let us realize how depressed he was from within.