Actor
Gautam Rode has steered clear of controversies and is known to be an actor who
is dedicated towards good work in our industry.
The actor recently though had to raise his voice when he was cheated of
over 2
crores by a builder. The actor had
booked a flat in May 2016 in Ariisto Sommet, Goregaon hoping to receive it
by Dec 2018 (as
per the official confirmation on email) as promised by the builder, Mr. Atithi
Narendra Patel.
Revealing
the whole story Gautam says, "I paid him a booking amount of 1.5 crore as asked by him
and a monthly installment of 5 lakhs was set for every month, which I paid till
March 2017. This
can be confirmed by my bank statement. I
gave him a total amount of 2 crores 11 lakhs 95 thousand including tax to the government in the
name of Ashvi developers, where Atithi Narendra Patel was the main director and
owner of the company(Recently I came to know from one of the websites that he
has resigned as a director of his the company). The construction of the building
however stopped in October 2016 but I kept paying the instalments till March 2017, hoping for it to start
as promised.
In
this time I kept asking for the allotment letter without which I couldn’t
register the flat. The first time I got anything besides a booking form from
Ashvi Developers was a schedule sheet that was sent to me on email after 10 months of having booked
the flat, dated 20th
March 2017
in which random slab rates were written which were never discussed and were not
part of our deal .. This can be testified by Nihar and sidarth (Common brokers-
Pan Properties).
The first time I got an allotment letter was
in April 2017
, but it was dated wrongly and there was no mention of 55 lakhs that I paid to him
in installments and again the slab rates
mentioned on this one were different from the ones sent on email
earlier. I have a hard copy of it.
In
April 2017
itself, after my repeated inquiries as to when the construction of the building
will start, when I received no definite answer, I told the builder that I will
not pay any more money till the construction of the building starts, to which
he called the brokers Nihar and sidarth and told them that if I didn’t want to
pay any further then they would cancel my booking and refund my money. This
message was delivered to me by Nihar and Siddarth to which I readily agreed as
I had lost faith in the builder. Sidarth (PAN properties) has already testified
in EOW about the same .
I
have saved several text messages and whatsapp messages that I received from
Atithi narendra Patel and Dhrupad Jhaveri (Sales head of ashvi developers and
he is Atithi Narendra Patel’s brother in law ) , in which Atithi narendra Patel
has written that I am in his first list of payments and he has thanked me for
understanding his situation and keeping patience.. and he will close the deal
at the earliest. But he never kept his word.
After
patiently waiting for more than a year when I did not get any positive reply
about either the construction of the
building or on the return of my money I went to the Economic Offences Wing
and lodged an FIR against the builder.
The construction of the building ( Aristo Sommet , Goregaon West) has still not
started. I’ve suffered a lot, but I have full faith in the judicial system and
am positive that I will get justice."
Gautam,
we are with you and we really hope you get justice!
