The Brave Pedestrian

Mumbai, 14th December, 2017: Kareena Kapoor endorsed Monarch Universal builders of Navi Mumbai builders against whom multiple FIRs for cheating have been filed. Directors Gopal Amar Thakur, Hasmukh Amar Thakur and Roshan Sudhakar Sheth were arrested in September 2017, several months after an FIR was registered in April 2017 for swindling over Rs 4.5 crore from a Dubai business and and his relatives, by falsely promising to deliver 17 flats. Associates Anand Thakur, Ashok Narayani and Sushil Makhija are still absconding. Monarch Universal has swindled over 1500 families in three Navi Mumbai projects namely Monarch Greenscapes at Panvel (880 flats), Monarch Brookfields at Taloja (320 flats), and Monarch Imperial at Kalamboli (310 flats). These 1500 families have found the going extremely tough. Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Mumbai police has been very slow to register FIRs; home-owners allege that police officers of EOW not only delayed in registering FIR, but also tried dissuadin...

We published an press release titled: Flat Sale or Leave & Licence? Jain "Charitable" Trust cheats Blind Flat-buyer To the draft of this press release (which we emailed to them), the trustees of Vardhaman Sanskar Dham emailed a rebuttal, which we reproduce below. From: Yogeshmshah Mahasukhalal <yogeshmshah@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 9:30 PM Subject: Re: Draft Press Release on Cheating by Vardhman Sanskar Dham To: Krishnaraj Rao <krish.kkphoto@gmail.com> Cc: chartered9@gmail.com, kuvadia jyotish <jyotishkuvadia@gmail.com>, Nilesh Patni <patniagency@gmail.com>, chetan mehta <cachetanmehta18@gmail.com> Dear Shri Krishnmunj Rao Mumbai   Received your draft press release on cheating by Vardhaman Sanskar Dham by mail on 13/02/2017   Our rebuttal is as under  :       It is factually wrong that the Trust has sold the flat situated at Bldg RN. 7 Flat No.103 to Mr. Jethmalji...

27 th October, 2016, Navi Mumbai: Here is a real-life thriller. Justdial starts plundering the bank account of an HDFC Bank customer, while the bank acts like an helpless bystander. After the dust settles, the bank tells its customer to go to the police, while it does absolutely nothing to prevent Justdial from robbing other customers. In May 2016, Sanjeev Goel, managing partner of a coaching academy called Pure Energy Academy in Belapur, Navi Mumbai, signed a contract with Justdial for business promotion. June onwards, Justdial started sucking unlimited amounts of money from Pure Energy's b ank account by using a fraudulent Electronic Clearance Service (ECS) mandate . Although the bank managers now understand how the crime was perpetrated, they refuse to take steps to protect thousands of customers from Justdial and other fraudulent companies following the same modus operandi . HDFC Bank's excuse is that National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) – which handles ECS tra...

Mumbai, 5th March, 2016: Last week, one of RNA builders' thousands of cheated flat-purchasers sent the builder a legal ultimatum, and started taking steps for going to court after discovering that their promised 17th floor flat in RNA Regal, a project in Kandivali West, is the proverbial pie-in-the-sky! In February 2011, Sandeep Kothari and Apeksha Khabiya, a non-resident couple based in Doha-Qatar, booked a spacious 17th floor flat in RNA Regal, based on the builder's promise that they would get possession within three years. The couple planned to return to India to live in this spacious 1365 sq. ft. dream house. After paying nearly Rs 30 lakhs up front as initial booking amount, the couple was kept in the dark by RNA Corp which fed them a steady diet of outright lies during the three-year waiting period. Every time the couple phoned RNA Corp, they were informed that the project was making satisfactory progress. In the end, the couple's rude awakening consisted of not on...