Druk Air Indian agent on trial

A ticketing sales agent for Druk Air Corporation, based in New Delhi, India, is on trial at the Paro district court for not having paid Nu.5.408 million accumulated from air ticket sales to the national airline.
Shiva Prasad Raychaudhuri, the chief executive officer (CEO) of M/s Raychaudhuri Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. (RCPL), Druk Air Corporation’s local passenger ticket sales agent in New Delhi, has been charged for criminal misappropriation of property, fraudulent cheque writing, criminal breach of trust and contact under the Penal Code of Bhutan.
A source told Kuensel that RCPL had issued about nine cheques, ranging between Nu. 0.5 million and Nu. 2.00 million to the Druk Air’s office in New Delhi, but all the cheques had bounced.
According to the agreement signed between the Druk Air and RCPL, the agent was required to clear all ticket sales done on behalf of Druk Air Corporation every fortnight. RCPL was supposed to provide sales 7th of the following month.
RCPL had stopped payment from October 2006 to January 2007 which had accumulated to Nu. 54,08,675.67.
27/06/07 Kuensel, Buhutan's National Newspaper, Bhutan

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Categories: Foreign Jun 2007