Delhi Police register case against BharatPe ex-MD Ashneer Grover, his wife for ‘misappropriation of funds’ | India News
“The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) on Wednesday registered a first information report (FIR) against former BharatPe managing director Ashneer Grover, his wife Madhuri Jain Grover, and family members including Deepak Gupta, Suresh Jain, and Shwetank Jain,” a Delhi Police official said.
“A complaint was filed by Resilient Innovations Pvt Ltd (BharatPe) in EOW, in which complainant alleged that Ashneer Grover (founder and ex-director of complainant company), his wife Madhuri Jain Grover and other employees were involved in criminal misappropriation of company’s funds on the basis of various forged/fabricated documents and resultant payments to non-existent firms/vendors and HR Consultancy firms without rendering any services,” a Delhi Police official said.
The complainant alleged that the “criminal acts” committed by Grover, his wife and other employees had caused a loss of around Rs 81 crore to the company.
“As per the complaint, these criminal acts had caused a wrongful loss of about Rs 81 crore to the complainant company,” said the official.
The officials also informed that on the basis of a detailed inquiry into the matter, a case was registered on Wednesday under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code.
They said the FIR had been registered under 20/406/408/409/467/468/471/120B sections of IPC.