Mahatma Gandhi's Great-Granddaughter Sentenced To 7 Years In South Africa: Report

Ashish Lata Ramgobin is the daughter of activists Ela Gandhi and late Mewa Ramgobind.

Ashish Lata Ramgobin, Mahatma Gandhi's great-granddaughter, has been sentenced to seven years in jail by a South African court in a 6-million-rand cheating case. Ms Ramgobin, 56, was pronounced guilty of defrauding industrialist SR Maharaj, who had paid 62 lakh rands (around Rs 3.3 crore) to her to clear the custom and import duties of a consignment from India that never arrived, news agency PTI's language service, Bhasha, reported. He had been promised a cut in profit for extending the loan. Ms Ramgobin is the daughter of activists Ela Gandhi and late Mewa Ramgobind. In 2015, during the trial, Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi of the National Prosecuting Authority had said Ms Ramgobin had forged fake receipts and documents to prove that the containers carrying linen were arriving in South Africa from India.