Real-life fairy tale makes Mumbai vada pav vendor Rs 7 cr richer 42-year-old Prem Tejumal Gurudasani works at a tea stall in Ambernath. Pic/Bhupen Patel Gurudasani, who has lived in acute poverty all his life and has been working as a vada pav vendor for ten years, never even dared to dream that his would be a rags-to-riches story. Living in a 160 sq ft house, which he shares with his brother's family, he never thought that he would turn out to be the part owner of two plots in Kalyan measuring a total of 9.5 acres. Striking gold Destiny has taken its course. I hope that justice will prevail and we will get what is rightfully ours," he added. If everything works in Gurudasani's favour, he will get a minimum of Rs 7 crore as his share in the property. "I have an elder sister, who will get 40 per cent of the property since she has brought all of us up. The other three siblings, including me, will get 20 per cent each." - See more at: http://www.mid-day.com/articles/real-life-fairy-tale-makes-mumbai-vada-pav-vendor-rs-7-cr-richer/15888193#sthash.D9T02JIc.qPRUxbrF.dpuf Ravi
His wife left him with his two kids in tow three years ago, because his meagre earnings of Rs 150 a day were far from sufficient to support the family. Now, Ulhasnagar resident Prem Tejumal Gurudasani (42) is reasonably confident that she will come back. For, if all goes well, the vada pav vendor is going to have a net worth of over Rs 7 crore in just a few months.
Imagine Gurudasani's surprise, then, when one of the customers at the Sunil Tea Mart in Ambernath told him a few months ago that his grandfather had left him and his siblings two plots in Kalyan one at Wadeghar, measuring 7.5 acres and worth Rs 30 crore, and another at Ashalegaon, measuring 2 acres and worth Rs 5 crore.
The plots were allotted by the Central Government to Gurudasani's grandfather Radhomal Minhomal Chichariya alias Gurudasani (who died on April 19, 1984) after he was displaced from Pakistan post-Partition and was rehabilitated in Ulhasnagar. The local land mafia had usurped the plots by making a woman pose as Radhomal's widow.
As soon as Gurudasani heard about this, he filed various RTI applications and, armed with evidence, registered an FIR with the Bazarpeth police station in Kalyan. Acting on his complaint, the police began a crack down on the mafia and arrested one of the accused, Manoj Chichariya, in connection with the case.
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