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The government lawyer has demanded from the court that Ajay Hinduja and his wife Namrata should be sent to jail.
The Indian-origin billionaire Hinduja family has been accused of treating domestic staff cruelly. According to Bloomberg report, he got the domestic staff to work for 15 to 18 hours at a very low cost at his villa in Switzerland. According to Bloomberg report, the human trafficking trial against them has started in Switzerland from Monday.
The government lawyer has demanded a minimum punishment of one year for the culprits. Bloomberg reported that another government lawyer has alleged in the court that Hinduja used to spend more on his dogs than on his staff. It has been claimed in the report that during this time they had even confiscated the passports of the staff.
The report has claimed that the Hinduja family used to pay about Rs 18 thousand per month to its staff at ‘Lake Villa’ in Geneva, this money was given to them in Indian rupees. They were not even able to use this money there.
Staff were not allowed to leave the job
According to the report, the government lawyer claimed in the court that there are neither fixed working hours for the employees in the Hinduja family’s villa nor any fixed time for their weekly leave. These staff are also not allowed to leave the job. They are not allowed to leave the house without permission.
Ajay Hinduja and his wife Namrata Hinduja outside the court in Geneva.
Government lawyer demanded to send him to jail
According to the report, the government lawyer has demanded from the court that Ajay Hinduja and his wife Namrata be sent to jail. The members of the Hinduja family who have been accused include Prakash Hinduja, Kamal Hinduja, Ajay Hinduja and his wife Namrata Hinduja.
Hinduja family has denied these allegations. He has said that neither was he involved in the hiring of these staff. Not only this, they did not even handle these staff. Therefore, these allegations of exploitation against him are wrong.
Hinduja family denied the allegations
Along with this, the Hinduja family has claimed that the government lawyers have not told the entire truth of the case. He claimed that adequate food arrangements were made for the staff and they were also given houses to stay. Hinduji family said that the allegation of making the staff work for 18 hours is exaggerated.
The Hinduja family’s lawyer claimed in the court that many of their domestic staff have returned to work in Switzerland after going to India. If they had faced problems here then why would they have come to work here again.
The defense claimed that the government lawyer’s claims were misleading. He said staff are treated as per local rules. The defense counsel also claimed that not a single such staff can claim that they were hired by Ajay Hinduja.
Hinduja is the richest in Britain
Hinduja family runs its business from Britain. This family is included in the list of the richest people in the world. According to Forbes, the Hinduja family had a net worth of $20 billion in 2023. Hinduja is the richest family in Britain.
Gopi Hinduja of the Hinduja family is the richest person in Britain. He is included in the list of top 200 richest people in the world. Hinduja Group’s business is in sectors like Telecom, Oil & Gas, Power & Infrastructure, Reality, Auto, Healthcare etc.
The foundation of Hinduja Group was laid 110 years ago
The foundation of Hinduja Group was laid by Parmanand Deepchand Hinduja in 1914 in Mumbai. He had four sons. The family of these four sons manages the Hinduja Group. The family business is currently managed by four Hinduja brothers – Srichand, Gopichand, Prakash, and Ashok. Srichand Hinduja died on May 17 last year.
The office of Hinduja Group was shifted to Iran in 1919. After this, the business of Hinduja Group continued from there till 1979. After the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979, the situation changed there, after which the Hinduja Group had to shift to London. Hinduja Group’s business is spread in about 50 countries and more than 1.5 lakh employees work in it. This group has six listed companies in India.
bofors Scams From Too connected Was Name
The names of Srichand, Gopichand and Prakash Hinduja also came up in the Bofors scam. In this scam, Swedish company Bofors was accused of giving a bribe of 1.3 billion dollars to the Indian government in 1986. All three brothers helped in this. CBI had leveled these charges against the three brothers in October 2000, but in 2005, the Delhi Court dismissed all the charges against them due to lack of evidence.
Picture of the four sons of Parmanand Deepchand Hinduja. Srichand Hinduja, the eldest brother sitting on the chair, died last year. (File)
Unique rule of Hinduja family
Four years ago, news of rift in the Hinduja family also came to light. Actually, the reason for this was an agreement reached in this family in 2014. According to the agreement, ‘Everyone has the right on the property of Hinduja Group, and nothing else belongs to anyone.’
Meaning, the wealth owned by one brother of the Hinduja family will be owned by the other brothers also. Each person will appoint the others as his executors. This agreement was signed by all four brothers. But later the daughters of Srichand Hinduja, the eldest member of the Hinduja family, wanted to get out of this agreement. For this he had also filed an application in the court.
Srichand Hinduja’s daughters had alleged that their uncles had isolated them from the family. They have been made extremely weak financially. At the same time, other brothers of Srichand Hinduja had accused these two sisters of grabbing all the property.
