It is said that just like an elephant has different teeth to chew and show, human beings also have two forms – real and hidden.
It is alleged that Gyanendra Shahi, a social activist, was broke head by the villagers of Surkhet after he got into a fight with the villagers over alcohol in the name of social service and relief distribution. It is said that Shahi has become a social activist without paying millions of rupees to various people for years.
Shahi did not seem to have paid for the business in Kathmandu a few years ago. Gyan Bahadur Shahi of Jumla suddenly became Gyanendra Shahi as a social activist without paying other people’s money. In 2074 BS, he along with three others started an online business selling electrical goods in Kathmandu.
The name of Shahi’s company that opened an office in Kandaghari was KTMBuzz.com. After a while, they started selling electronic goods as well as food online. At the time, a quarrel broke out between the partners.
But Shahi said that he would now do the business himself and started selling rice, electronic goods, thermos and clothes in the back of vehicle. At the same time, he picked up 840 bags of rice in 2075 from Jaya Pashupati Suppliers in Kalimati. Arvind Agrahari, the proprietor of the supplier, said that the price was around Rs nine lakh.
Shahi, who at that time did not pay the interest of nine lakh rupees and did not pay interest, is now the social activist who is giving justice to the unhappy. Shahi had blocked their phones for a long time after businessmen including Agrahari repeatedly demanded to pay their dues.
They say that Shahi has lied for three years even though he sometimes pick up the phone and pays the old amount. Even now, the traders have started appealing to the police administration after Shahi refused to pay the money. He has given two cheques to Agraharu, one from a cooperative and the other from a bank. However, he told Jana Aastha that the cheque of the account without money had no meaning. Shahi had cut an unspecified cheque of Rs. 641,000 of Pushkar Savings and Loan Cooperative Society Limited of Kandaghari and Rs 128,500 from Everest Bank.
However, the traders had repeatedly called him as he had no qualms about it. Agrahari says that he has no choice but to seek legal redressed after Shahi showed a tendency to pay but not pay over the phone. Earlier, Shahi did not pick up the phone when he contacted the office at Kupondol, but Shahi escaped several times by giving a readymade answer through PA.
Translated by Muna Chand, news from Jana Aastha Online
