Ringing Bells CEO, Mohit Goel was detained by the Ghaziabad Police on Thursday, after an FIR filed by distributor Ayam Enterprises.
If you’re searching for Ayam Enterprises online, you’ll probably come across this website. Well, G.K. Kansal, Manager for this company, wants you to know that it has nothing to do with Ringing Bells. According to Kansal, there are two companies in Ghaziabad called Ayam Enterprises, and the one with a presence on the Internet is not the one involved. According to a source, the allegations of fraud against Ringing Bells have been filed by a distributor by the same name.
For the uninitiated, Ringing Bells’ Director, Mohit Goel, was reportedly detained on Thursday, after allegations of fraud. The allegations were made by Ayam Enterprises, a Ghaziabad-based company. The company claimed that Ringing Bells had “defrauded” it for as much as Rs. 16 lakh. Ringing Bells is the company that launched the Freedom 251 smartphone, priced at Rs. 251.
Further, the Ayam Enterprises you find online is involved in PET Preform manufacturing, which has little to do with mobile phones. Manager Kansal says he has got calls about Ringing Bells earlier. According to him, Ayam Enterprises was mentioned when the company first started selling phones, and he would get calls from hopeful or disgruntled customers, who either wanted to book a phone, or wanted to know what happened to their bookings.
Kansal says that he himself tried to reach the number for Ayam Enterprises, that had been provided by Ringing Bells in their advertisement. He claims that this number was also inactive or not reachable, which is what led people to call his firm instead. G.K. Kansal is also a partner at Ayam Enterprises, the one that manufactures PET Preform.
In its FIR, the distributor Ayam enterprises says, “We paid Rs. 30 lakh to Ringing Bells through RTGS on different occasions. But it delivered us product worth Rs. 13 lakh only. Upon follow-up, we could get products plus money totaling Rs. 14 lakh.” That at least seems like a confirmation that Ringing Bells did bring in some products, even though the company has failed to make deliveries of its Freedom 251 smartphone.
Further, an independent source involved in the mobile business says Ringing Bells is quickly developing a poor name amongst industry personnel as well. The source, who is intimately involved with distributors and others involved in the mobile phone industry, says that he/she routinely advises companies against doing business with Ringing Bells.
The maker of the world’s cheapest smartphone is yet to comment on the matter. We reached out to Ringing Bells and the company has promise a statement soon.
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