Even as her husband Raj Kundra is in jail in a pornography case, and a Surat dealer has filed a case against his company Viaan Industries for cheating, Shilpa Shetty and her mother Sunanda Shetty have been named in a case of fraud at Lucknow.
“A team is being sent to Mumbai to meet Shilpa and her mother regarding the case of fraud which has been filed against a wellness centre IOSIS that they have been running for a few years. We have two different cases filed at the Hazratganj and the Vibhuti Khand police stations against the Shettys — Shilpa is the chairperson of the centre while her mother is a director,” says DCP Sanjeev Suman from Lucknow.
The complainant, one Jyotsna Chauhan, alleges that Shilpa and her mother took a few crores of rupees as advance to open a franchise of their wellness centre in Lucknow but have not honoured their part of the deal.
Incidentally, Sunanda had filed a case of fraud last month against one Sudhakar Ghare for furnishing fake documents in a `1.60 crore deal. This is the second time Sunanda and Shilpa have been named in a case.
It may be recalled that in 2003, Surat-based Shivnarayan Agarwal, owner of Praful Sarees, had alleged that Sunanda had hired a small-time Bangkok-based don, Fazalur-Rahman, to settle a dispute.
In 1998 Agarwal had reportedly paid Shilpa Rs 4 lakh to model his sarees. In the absence of a written contract, he continued to use the footage. Shetty’s parents demanded that he pay up. When he didn’t, they allegedly used the underworld to get him to pay up the cash. Then, both Sunanda and her husband Surendra Shetty were arrested and later released on bail. Shilpa’s father Surendra expired a few years ago. The case is still in court.
