PNG sues temple trustee’s wife over gold purchases
Since September 2018, Sharada Godse made five purchases at PNG Jewellers
While jewellers moved court for compensation, woman claims her ornaments were siphoned off
PN Gadgil (PNG ) Jewellers has sued Sharda Godse, the wife of Dagdusheth Halwai Ganapati temple’s trustee Ashok Godse, for failing to pay money for the gold she purchased from their outlet. The Gadgils have filed a case in Pune court, pertaining to cheque bounce and evident failure to pay the sum. While Godse has claimed that the purchased gold was stolen by few fraudsters, under the garb of chit fund (for which she had allegedly filed a grievance), the court has issued processes against her.
Parag Gadgil, director ofPN Gadgil Jewellers , said, “It seems that she was being cheated and was in a problem due to which she took this route. However, we needed our payment to be cleared and hence we have moved the court.”
Since September 2018, Sharada made five purchases of gold from PN Gadgil Jewellers, for which she submitted post-dated cheques. By the end of all her transactions, she had gold worth Rs 52 lakh in various forms. The store employees said that they accepted the cheques since they were familiar. However, when the due dates approached, she routinely told them not to deposit the cheques. When one of them was deposited, the bank said that the account related to the cheque was shut. The store owners then approached Sharada, who kept on saying that the payments would be processed soon. Nine months passed by and gold was not compensated for. It prompted a case against Sharada under the Negotiable Instruments Act.
Sharada claimed that she was being cheated by fraudsters for six years, who swindled Rs 1.68 crore from her — a case that has been registered with the Faraskhana cops.
Sharada told Mirror, “I got a call in September 2018, stating of an income tax raid at my house. To avoid it, I was told that I needed to deposit gold. For a while, I was bewildered, before I decided to walk to PNG store. I could not tell them the real reasons behind my purchases since they have known me for years. I gave them post-dated cheques and took the gold to the bank to deposit it.”
According to Sharada, two people — who claimed to be from a financial agency — approached her, and ran away with the gold on the pretext of depositing it. She claimed that she was made to make such gold purchases for five times. “Since I was promised that it will be returned, I got a gold chain, earrings, bangles etc. When I realised that it would not be returned, I filed a case. As far as the payment of PNG is concerned, I have received a notice from the court and, I will be clearing the dues soon.”
After PNG moved court, the judicial magistrate issued process against her. “The proceeding prima facie indicates that the complainant received the cheque in question, which was presented for encashment but could not be honoured. It indicates that notice was issued on the address of the accused. Despite knowing said notice/service, the accused failed to repay the cheque amount within the statutory period,” the court observed.
The case is scheduled to come up for hearing next on September 17.
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Since September 2018, Sharada made five purchases of gold from PN Gadgil Jewellers, for which she submitted post-dated cheques. By the end of all her transactions, she had gold worth Rs 52 lakh in various forms. The store employees said that they accepted the cheques since they were familiar. However, when the due dates approached, she routinely told them not to deposit the cheques. When one of them was deposited, the bank said that the account related to the cheque was shut. The store owners then approached Sharada, who kept on saying that the payments would be processed soon. Nine months passed by and gold was not compensated for. It prompted a case against Sharada under the Negotiable Instruments Act.
Sharada claimed that she was being cheated by fraudsters for six years, who swindled Rs 1.68 crore from her — a case that has been registered with the Faraskhana cops.
Sharada told Mirror, “I got a call in September 2018, stating of an income tax raid at my house. To avoid it, I was told that I needed to deposit gold. For a while, I was bewildered, before I decided to walk to PNG store. I could not tell them the real reasons behind my purchases since they have known me for years. I gave them post-dated cheques and took the gold to the bank to deposit it.”
According to Sharada, two people — who claimed to be from a financial agency — approached her, and ran away with the gold on the pretext of depositing it. She claimed that she was made to make such gold purchases for five times. “Since I was promised that it will be returned, I got a gold chain, earrings, bangles etc. When I realised that it would not be returned, I filed a case. As far as the payment of PNG is concerned, I have received a notice from the court and, I will be clearing the dues soon.”
After PNG moved court, the judicial magistrate issued process against her. “The proceeding prima facie indicates that the complainant received the cheque in question, which was presented for encashment but could not be honoured. It indicates that notice was issued on the address of the accused. Despite knowing said notice/service, the accused failed to repay the cheque amount within the statutory period,” the court observed.
The case is scheduled to come up for hearing next on September 17.
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