80-year-old Kanta Prasad, the owner of ‘Baba Ka Dhaba’ from South Delhi has filed a complaint against Gaurav Wasan, the YouTuber who shot his video and made him famous. Prasad alleged Gaurav for scamming funds raised for Baba Ka Dhaba in the name of helping him and his wife.
Gaurav shared a video on his channel on October 7 showing the couple talking about the lack of customers at their Dhaba, that went viral on social media and several people donated money to help the couple. Soon their Dhaba got famous and many people came to have food on their Dhaba and to click selfies, but after a few weeks, the customers decreased rapidly as the fame got disappeared.
Prasad said “I don’t get a lot of customers now; most people come here to take selfies… Earlier I was earning over Rs 10,000 per day, now it’s Rs 3,000-Rs 5,000.” The complaint filed by Prasad, along with a group of men, at Malviya Nagar police station Saturday claims Wasan “deliberately shared his and his family’s bank details and collected a huge amount as a donation.” Prasad claims that the amount of donation is much bigger than the amount he received from Gaurav.
However, Gourav said he shared his bank account details instead of Prasad’s account because he didn’t want people to harass Prasad. “When I shot the video, I didn’t know it would become this big. I didn’t want people to harass Baba (Prasad) so I shared my bank details…” Gaurav said making his point. Gourav shared three receipts of the transactions, all dated October 27 — two cheques of Rs 1,00,000 and Rs 2,33,000 and one receipt of bank payment of Rs 45,000, and said the total money credited in the three days is around Rs 3.5 lakh.
