Delhi HC on Tuesday imposed Rs 2 lakh fine on Ashneer Grover for violation of court orders. Reportedly, the court said that it is dismayed of Grover’s action.
According to a report by HT, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday fined the former Managing Director and co-founder of Bharat Pe, Ashneer Grover, Rs 2 lakh for sharing inappropriate posts about Bharat Pe, despite giving assurance to the court that he wouldn’t do so.
Following this, Ashneer Grover has tendered an unconditional apology before Delhi HC.
In January, the Delhi High Court had advised BharatPe and its estranged co-founder to be courteous to each other even after their fallout. The court urged Mr Grover to refrain from making allegedly defamatory statements and asked the counsel for the parties to accordingly “advise” their respective clients.
“Social media has actually brought us down to this level. What are we doing here? Basically, they should be courteous to each other… You have fallen out, fight your litigation,” the court remarked.
Grover’s wife, Madhuri Jain, was last week questioned by Delhi Police’s Economic Offences Wing in an alleged Rs 81-crore fraud at the fintech startup. Mr Grover was also summoned but he dud not appear for questioning.
The complaint was filed in May 2023 after BharatPe alleged that Mr Grover and his family caused damages of Rs 81.3 crore through illegal payments.
The company claimed they made fake payments to human resource consultants, forged invoices, made illegal payments to travel invoices, and also added non-existing transactions in input tax credit and payment of penalty to GST authorities.
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