Baba ka Dhaba owner, Kanta Prasad had accused YouTuber Gaurav Wasan of cheating and allegedly misappropriating the money he received as donation to help out the elderly man and his wife. Now the elderly man is apologising to the food blogger.
Wasan's video of the poor condition of Kanta Prasad and his wife Badaami Devi's eatery in south Delhi's Malviya Nagar had brought viral attention to the plight of the couple. This earned them overnight fame and help in the shape of donations poured in from all over the country.?
With the help of the money, Prasad managed to settle all his debts and buy smartphones for himself and his family. He even opened a new restaurant which failed to succeed and shut down in February.?
Now, he and his wife have been forced to return to their roadside stall once again.
In an Instagram video that has gone viral, Prasad has said that Gaurav Wasan was not a thief and that he never claimed that he was one. With folded hands, Prasad said that he was wrong to say malicious things about him, He added, ¡°I made a mistake by saying ¡®I didn¡¯t call him but he approached us himself,¡¯ I¡¯d like to apologise."
Prasad had invested Rs 5 lakh to open the new restaurant and hired three workers. After witnessing success for a short period of time, the footfall at the restaurant decreased and the elderly man had to shut it down. He told Hindustan Times,?¡°The average monthly sales never crossed Rs 40,000. I had to bear all the losses. In hindsight, I feel we were wrongly advised to open a new restaurant. Of the total investment of Rs 5 lakh, we managed to recover only ?36,000 from the sale of chairs, utensils, and cooking machines, after the restaurant shut down."
YouTuber Gaurav Wasan had highlighted the poor condition of Kanta Prasad's eatery last year through a YouTube video. Later, Prasad had filed a cheating complaint against Wasan and his associates for allegedly misappropriating the money he received in the donation. He had also alleged that "Wasan intentionally and deliberately shared only his and his family/friends bank details and mobile numbers with the donors and collected a huge amount of donation through different mode of payments i.e bank account/wallets without providing any information to the complainant".
Wasan had denied all allegations of fraud and produced bank statements to prove the authentic transactions made to Prasad's bank account.