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What is going on the Baba Ka Dhaba? Why is everyone calling it a scam in 2020?

 



Most of us Indians have a defective gene somewhere in our body. We love sob stories.

Be it a Reality show like Indian Idol or Social Media News - we always love it when Poor people (Destitute or Near Destitute) and their troubles are highlighted. The Sight of an Old Man or an Old Woman or the Poor mother of a Contestant on Indian Idol crying - is TRP Fodder.

We love it when Poor, Oppressed, Minorities claim to achieve something - like Drone Pratap - a Science graduate who claimed to build 600+ drones (Turned out to be a 1000% lie)


A Youtuber called Gaurav Wasan highlighted the plight of a Dhaba in Delhi called Baba Ka Dhaba - run for many years by an Old Couple who were facing utter ruin due to Coronavirus or Covid 19.

The Sight of the Old Couple crying - became National News and obviously our Masses thronged towards the Couple - and Celebrities from Ajay Jadeja to Aparashakti Khurana to Anushka Sharma began to appeal to Twitterati for their help.

Subsequently Baba Ka Dhaba started back to business again

The Youtuber appealed for money for Baba Ka Dhaba. The Account number he gave was in the name of Kanta Prasad - the Owner of Baba Ka Dhaba although he had also given his own Paytm number and Google pay Number linked to his Bank account as an additional avenue of cash flow.


The Above information is Fact

Beyond this everything is pure speculation

Contributions were made into the accounts given by Gaurav Wasan the Youtuber.

Subsequently - Gaurav Wasan was alleged to have made two payments of Rs. 45,000/- and Rs. 15,000/- to the Old Couple.

Subsequently Wasan allegedly paid then a further Rs. 1,73,000/- and said it was the Final Payment from the Donations and Contributions (Plus or minus some rupees)

In Short - The Owner of BKD claimed to have received Rs. 2,33,000/- from the Donations and Contributions for his Dhabas closure from March 25 2020 to September 3 2020 when the Dhaba opened for business completely - that is for 5 months approximately.




On the other hand - Gaurav Wasan claims to have received Rs. 4,44,000/- in Donations and Contributions out of which he has paid Rs. 3,78,000/- to the Old Couple. He claimed that the balance Rs. 66,000/- was his own money.

He even produced the Statement of Account for that one account

Wasan also said that Kanta Prasads account had been sealed because Rs. 20 Lakh had already been deposited in it.


Here are certain discrepancies in the Statements of the BKD Owners

·         The Owners claimed that they did not have a working bank account in the month of March 25 when COVID 19 first emerged in India which was why they had okayed Wasan providing his account information. However since they opened an account during August or September 2020 and encashed the Cheque given by Wasan. The Old Couple claimed to have received only Rs. 2,33,000/- from Wasan. Wasan however has claimed to have paid them Rs. 3,78,000/-

·         However in Vasans statement Rs. 3,78,000/- has been shown in Withdrawals but the Narration for Rs. 1,45,000/- says “DIGITAL TRANSACTION PAYTM” - It does not mention the name of KANTA PRASAD OR BKD. So it is possible that Rs. 1,45,000/- could have been given to someone else by PAYTM by Wasan

·         Sealing of Kanta Prasads account by the Bank is very odd. Why should the Bank seal an account? Unless there is a reason to. Wasan says that Rs. 20 Lakhs has been deposited into this account but it does not make sense to freeze the account by the bank. Even if 20 Crores is deposited - Bank has no business to freeze the account unless the 20 Crores was paid by Suitcases of Cash. The only explanation i can think of is that the account was inactive or dormant and hence maybe the Bank officials used the words Froze.


What is my Theory

There are Two Theories:-

The First Theory is that some mischief monger managed to rile up the Old man Kanta Prasad (Mostly his relative or a fellow vendor of food) that he is being conned and Gaurav Wasan is conning him. It is a regular occurence. People with Lesser Education and nearer to the Poverty line have a deep suspicion of People with higher Education and who are middle class and always tend to believe their fellows rather than the middle class person - no matter how much this middle class person may have helped the other.

Maid servants, Factory workers - tend to believe their fellow mates of the same social strata and suspect their bosses of 10 - 15 years .

It is entirely possible that Gaurav Wasan found that Rs. 20 Lakhs has been deposited into Babas account and told the bank to stop incoming credits as Enough money has been credited. Of course this is utterly impossible unless Gaurav Wasan became RBI Governor in a secret Nomination or holds a GPA from Kanta Prasad.

Subsequently some ill informed people told the Near Illiterate Kanta Prasad that “The Middle Class Boy has conned you” and Kanta Prasad believing him ran to the Police station to give a complaint.

In this Theory - Both Wasan and Kanta Prasad are victims of misunderstanding

The Second Theory is crueler - My second theory is that - Kanta Prasad and Wasan were both in Cahoots with each other and Wasan wanted a share of the Rs. 20 Lakh in Kanta Prasads Account and Kanta Prasad refused - hence Wasan pretended to be a do gooder and got the account frozen through some way or another.

A Furious Kanta Prasad subsequently reported to the Cops in Malviya Nagar.

In short - A Falling out of Thieves

In this Theory - Both Kanta Prasad and Wasan are both Guilty and had a falling out.


Either way - The Indian Public Sympathized with Kanta Prasad, owner of BKD at his plight but today after receiving Rs. 2,33,000/- minimum per his own claims for 5 months of closure - and after his business boomed post Wasans post - Kanta Prasad is an Ungrateful and Greedy Man.

That is virtually guaranteed.

The man was allegedy starving and despite a payout of almost Rs. 2.5 Lakhs and huge queues outside his shop which means revenue is booming - he is laying claim to more and more of his donation money and ready to go to the police against Wasan without even offering a chance for Wasan to justify himself when it was Wasan who probably saved his life (No matter what his intent should have been)


So that is where things stand today

And of course the Million Dollar Question

Is the Indian Public Bipolar?

Vijay Mallya, Anil Ambani, Drone Pratap, Devyani Khobrogade, Gaurav Wasan - all hailed as heroes first and then castigated as first rate villians……


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