Sonia Dhawan, accused of ransom from Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma has again joined Paytm. Sonia Dhawan was accused of demanding a ransom of 20 crore rupees from the owner of the Paytm company. Earlier, police had detained three accused, including Sonia and her husband in this case. Sonia was working as a personal assistant of Vijay Shekhar.
Two weeks ago, Sonia got bail from the Allahabad High Court from this case. Sonia’s lawyer Prashant Tripathi says that from the past few months, company’s owners were pressurizing her to sell all the shares of the company. According to Sonia’s lawyer “Sonia and her husband received a call on September 22, 2018, in which they demanded five crore rupees. Paytm has tried to spoil their image and given legal threats to them.”
Sonia Dhawan was an ordinary employee in a newspaper company, but her fate changed as soon as she reached Paytm and she reached the company’s vice presidential post in a short span of just eight years. It is said that Sonia Dhawan was in the office of Business Operation Manager in English newspaper group before joining Vijay Shekhar. In the meantime, she came in contact with Vijay Shekhar Sharma, owner of Paytm One 97 Communications Limited. After that, she joined the company as a secondary Media Contract in Paytm.
Even after the trials were taken into judicial custody, Rohit managed to get a stay from Allahabad High Court after his arrest. So far it is not clear whether Ajay Shekhar Sharma, who is lodging the case, will withdraw his case. Only after the case was filed, Dhawan’s counsel had said that pressure was being made to sell her stake of the company. Sonia Dhawan had the option of 0.008% stakes in one 97 Communications and 0.02% of Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP) in Paytm E-Commerce Private Limited.
For every business deal, Vijay Shekhar Sharma used to go with Sonia Dhawan. Vijay used to travel to Singapore, Hong Kong and other foreign countries with Sonia. Sonia Dhawan’s had also played a key role in bringing China’s biggest company Alibaba into contact with Paytm. Sonia was very fond of staying in the media headlines.
