Delhi-Based Bizman Moves Court, Seeks FIR Against Raj Kundra, Shilpa Shetty for Cheating And Fraud

NEW DELHI: A Delhi Magistrate’s court, Wednesday sought an action taken report (ATR) from the city police on a complaint filed by a businessman seeking registration of an FIR against Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, her husband Raj Kundra, and others for allegedly defrauding him of lakhs of rupees and siphoning off the money for selfish ill-motives, Times of India, reported.

Metropolitan Magistrate Mansi Malik who asked for the action taken report from the police posted the matter for hearing on November 9, 2021, the complainant’s lawyer said.

The complainant Vishal Goel alleged that the accused persons entered into a criminal conspiracy to cheat and defraud him by inducing him to invest lakhs of rupees in a Mumbai-based company in 2018, which later yielded no returns and its share price fell drastically.

“These accused persons deliberately induced the complainant to invest Rs 41,33,782 with a view to misappropriate such money and use the same for their personal gains and carry out illegal activities,” the complaint alleged.

They claimed that it was involved in activities related to gaming, animation, beauty products, etc, the complaint said.

Goel, however, said that he recently came to know that the company is into the business of producing adult porn movies by developing mobile applications and circulating them through it.

“The result of such unscrupulous, fraudulent and mala fide activities is that the complainant, who was induced to invest, have been cheated and the money has been siphoned off for selfish ill motives,” said the complaint filed through advocates Sahil Munjal and Rhea Gandhi.

The businessman claimed that the accused “misted and misrepresented” that the money invested would be used for carrying out legitimate business but upon receipt of money, he came to know that they used a chain of different agencies to launder the money and make unauthorized personal gains.

The complainant has sought registration of FIR under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, including cheating and criminal breach of trust, the Information Technology Act, the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, and the SEBI Act.

According to the complainant businessman, during one of the seasons of IPL, the accused Umesh Goenka invited him to watch the cricket match of Rajasthan Royals in Jaipur, wherein he boasted about the future plans of their company Viaan Industries Ltd only to convince him to invest in it.

The complainant also alleged that he met Raj Kundra in 2018 at a hotel and following this the complainant had infused a total amount of Rs 41,33,782 in the company-Viaan.

Besides Kundra and Shetty, the other six accused include Darshit Shah, M K Wadhwa, Nandan Mishra, Satyendra Sarupria, Umesh Goenka, and Viaan Industries Limited.

The complainant said that he has enough reasons to believe that the accused are planning to leave the country. Kundra is, however, in judicial custody in another case.

The businessman moved the court seeking registration of FIR after the station house officer of North Rohini Police Station did not take any action on his complaint.