Rishabh Pant's Lawyer Issues Statement After The Wicket-Keeper Batter Was Duped Of INR 1.63 Cr By Haryana Cricketer

Indian wicket-keeper batter Rishabh Pant was duped by a Haryana cricketer, Mrinank Singh, after promising to secure expensive watches and luxury items at a reasonable rate for the 24-year-old youngster.

Mrinank has already been caught and held up in Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai following a complaint from a businessman who accused the Haryana player of cheating by offering to get him expensive watches and mobile phones at a cheaper rate. Speaking about the same, Pant’s lawyer, Eklavya Dwivedi, went into the details of the situation.

“This is basically a case under negotiable instruments act where the cheque issued by the accused Mr. Mrinank Singh has been dishonoured on account of insufficient funds. To take the story back a little bit, how these two met, how it actually transpired and why this cheque was issued was sometime in 2020 or 2021. Mr. Mrinank Singh, who was known to my client Rishabh Pant through their cricketing commonalities. They met somewhere in the zonal cricket academy camp.”

“So in 2021, Mr. Mrinank Singh falsely misrepresented to my client that he has just started a new business dealing in luxury items and he could procure the same items for it at a very reasonable cost. Therefore, on this proposal, he transferred a sizeable account to Mr. Mrinank Singh and also parted with certain luxurious items, jewellery etc which were also for, relatively high amounts, anticipating that the accused Mrinank Singh would be able to resell the same and give him huge profits for it,” Dwivedi told Sports Tak.

“We got a return memo saying that there has been a dishonoured of the cheque” – Rishabh Pant’s lawyer

Rishabh Pant went ahead and served a legal notice to Mrinank and the two parties had agreed to settle for an amount of INR 1.63 crores. However, the cheque from Mrinank bounced due to a lack of insufficient funds.

“After a while, when he was not able to obtain those articles, we gave him a legal notice and a mutual settlement was arrived at Rs 1.63 crore for which Mr. Mrinank Singh issues us a cheque. Now, once we presented this cheque before the bank authorities, we got a return memo saying that there has been a dishonourment of the cheque and it has bounced because of insufficient funds.”

“He was not present in the last listing of our case before the magistrate. So, the magistrate has issued directors to the SHO over there (police authorities) to connect him virtually at the next date of hearing, which is July 19. He will be present that day and his statement will be recorded. We have also filed an application under section 143A for interim compensation. That will also be taken up and arguments will be heard on that,” he further mentioned.

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