Banks name defaulters, but hesitate on publishing photos

What’s in a name? Not much perhaps, but a picture speaks a thousand words. Or, so it seems, when delinquent borrowers don’t take offence at their names being made public but hustle to courts to stop banks from publishing their photographs in newspaper advertisements. Until lately, banks have been publishing photographs of people who did not repay loans. At least two high court verdicts in 2006 were in favour of this practice. But, in the wake of a conflicting verdict issued by the Calcutta high court in May, banks are now confused whether they should continue to publish photographs of delinquent clients............

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