Flipkart’s co founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal along with three other employees of the company have been booked for reportedly cheating a businessman. According to a report by a news daily, the founders of India’s biggest ecommerce company cheated a businessman of Rs. 9.96 crores by not clearing the dues the company owed him towards 12,500 laptops he had supplied.
Flipkart’s sales director Hari, along with accounts managers Sumit Anand and Sharauque are the others named in the FIR lodged by the owner of Indiranagar based C-Store Company, Naveen Kumar. In the FIR, Naveen alleged he had supplied 14,000 laptops to the company between June 2015 and June 2016 for the Big Billion Day sale. The FIR states, “Flipkart returned 1,482 units but did not pay for the remaining units.”
The company, according to the FIR, also owes Naveen TDS and shipping charges for those units and falsely claimed to have returned 3,901 units. By not clearing the dues, Flipkart owes Naveen Kumar Rs. 9,96,21,419. The news report further states, the case has been registered in Indiranagar Police Station under IPC sections 34 (common intent,) 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 420 (cheating) and an investigation is underway.
At present, Flipkart is reportedly planning to start selling insurance including general, life and health insurance. Further, the company is also in talks with a slew of digital lending startups to add a new revenue generating business to its suite of offerings. In an attempt to capture a majority of other IoT industries, Flipkart has also initiated discussions with vertical ecommerce players like Swiggy, BookmyShow, Urbanclap, Urban Ladder and Pepperfry.