Mahatma Gandhi's great-granddaughter living in South Africa has been sent to jail on charges of forgery. 56-year-old Ashish Lata Ramgobin has been sentenced to 7 years in jail by a Durban court in a fraud and forgery case of Rs 60 lakh. On Monday, the court pronounced its decision in which Ashish Lata Ramgobin was convicted.
Lata, who describes herself as a businessman, fraudulently grabbed Rs 62 lakh from a local businessman. According to SR Maharaj, who was a victim of fraud, Lata had taken money from him by luring him for profit. Lata Ramgobin was accused of cheating businessman SR Maharaj. Maharaj had given Rs 60 lakh to Lata to import a consignment and clear the customs, but there was no such consignment. Lata had promised that she would give part of its profits to SR Maharaj.
Lata Ramgobin, the daughter of human rights eminent Ila Gandhi and the late Mewa Ramgobind, was denied permission by the Durban Specialized Commercial Crime Court to appeal both her conviction and sentence. During the hearing on Monday, the court was told that Lata Ramgobin had met Maharaj, the director of New Africa Alliance footwear distributors, in August 2015.
SR Maharaj's company deals in the import, manufacture, and sale of clothing, linen clothing, and footwear. At the same time, Maharaj's company also gives money to other companies on the basis of profit-share. Lata Ramgobin told Maharaj that she had imported 3 containers of linen cloth for the South African hospital group Netcare.
The court was told that Lata told SR Maharaj that she was facing money troubles to pay the import cost and customs duty and she needed the money to clear the goods at the port.
Ashish Lata then told SR Maharaj that he needed Rs 62 lakh and to prove his point, he sent a signed purchase order showing that Lata had bought the goods. But Maharaj came to know at last. It was found that the papers which were shown to him are fake and he filed a case against Lata.
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