Former Bharatpe chief Ashneer Grover has written to the corporate’s board searching for motion towards CEO Suhail Sameer following his offensive remarks on social media and sought resignation of chairman Rajnish Kumar.

In response to a remark by Ashneer’s sister Aashima on a social media put up by former Bharatpe worker Karan Sarki, Sameer mentioned  “Behen- tere bhai ne saara paisa chura liya (Sister, your brother has stolen all the money). Very little left to pay salaries”.

Sarki within the put up had raised the difficulty of sacking of previous workers and non-payment of salaries.

Grover within the letter dated April 8, a duplicate of which is reviewed by PTI, mentioned Sameer’s language in response to the aforesaid social media put up just isn’t solely defamatory however “also blatantly a public lie and admission of the company being bankrupt by no less than its own CEO and member of the board”.

“Going by precedents and self-proclaimed high standards of this board, the CEO should be immediately served a show cause notice for his despicable public behaviour and immediately put on leave of absence to manage the damage on the brand of the company.

“Suhail has to conclusively show to the board that he was not drunk and medicines when he put the mentioned reply on LinkedIn,” Grover said.

On Thursday, he tweeted that BharatPe “closed its first quarter of ‘degrowth’ and ‘most money burn’ underneath ready (sic) management of Rajnish Kumar and Suhail Sameer.” However, a BharatPe spokesperson said the company registered the strongest quarter in its history.

“We have registered 4x development in our general income over the identical interval final 12 months. On a sequential-quarter foundation, the expansion has been 30 per cent, regardless of the third wave of Covid-19. Comparing month-on-month, all our metrics have grown on the quickest tempo,” the spokesperson said.

BharatPe’s merchant total payments value (TPV) grew 17 percent,  consumer TPV 39 per cent, loans facilitated 31 per cent, and revenue 21 per cent in March 2022 over Feb 2022, the spokesperson said.

“Going ahead, we’re monitoring properly to interrupt even on our service provider enterprise and additional strengthen our client enterprise. We request the media to take official feedback from the corporate and never from former staff who not have enterprise info,” the spokesperson said.

Grover in the letter said that Sameer’s all dealings should be audited by an independent auditor and he should only be reinstated as CEO once the audit report is tabled with the board and it exonerates him of any wrongdoing.

“Anything lesser when it comes to motion right here would undeniably show what’s a reality – that what was finished to me was a properly deliberate discriminatory conspiracy by the board at behest of buyers, not a governance assessment,” Grover said.

BharatPe had removed Grover from all positions in March at the company and alleged to have also found involvement of Grover’s family and relatives in extensive misappropriation of the company’s funds.

Grover has demanded a written apology from Sameer and in absence of the same, he and his sister may seek damages and pursue criminal defamation against the BharatPe CEO and the company.

Sameer had apologised for his remarks after it earned criticism from several people in social media.

“Moreover, Chairman Rajnish Kumar ought to instantly resign. The present incident clearly brings out the truth that Rajnish Kumar condoning the life menace to me by Bhavik Koladiya from his personal home and all of the deliberate media leaks resulting in my resignation in self respect, have additional emboldened the present administration to behave as hooligans,” Grover said.

He said the management feels that they have got a ‘carte blanche’ from the board and its chairman to target him and his family without fear of any repercussions.

“It additionally proves that within the Governance Review which was alleged to be all encompassing, the chairman refused to look into the allegations made towards Suhail altogether, additional main him to imagine he’s above every part,” Grover mentioned.