Freedom 251 mobile priced at Rs 251 by Ringing Bells: BJP MP Kirit Somaiya calls it 'scam' Ringing Bells ‘Freedom 251’ mobile price of Rs 251 has set off a chain reaction with eager potential buyers rushing to place orders, with some even offering to pay double and triple that amount just to get hold of the smartphone (the website freedom251.com kept crashing before eventually bookings were suspended), but at the other end of the spectrum is Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Kirit Somaiya who says the entire smartphone scheme is a scam. Here the BJP leader explains why Freedom 251 mobile deal is a scam and worse:
Freedom 251 mobile: In fact, BJP MP Kirit Somaiya levelled extremely serious allegations against Ringing Bells, saying it is a ‘ponzi bogus company scam’ after the launch of the Freedom 251 mobile. “This is a huge scam, that is why I went through all the papers of the company. The government has informed Uttar Pradesh government to check the bonafide of the promoter (Amity University graduate Mohit Kumar Goel who is a son of a small town grocer). This is a Ponzi bogus company scam,” Somaiya said.
Freedom 251 mobile: BJP MP Kirit Somaiya has approached telecom ministry, telecom regulator TRAI, consumer ministry, Sebi, corporate ministry, finance ministry, RBI and state governments to check various concerns that he has Ringing Bells offering Freedom 251 mobile phone for Rs 251– which has turned into the world’s cheapest smartphone.
Freedom 251 mobile: BJP leader Kirit Somaiya had earlier written a letter to IT Miniser Ravi Shankar Prasad questioning the abnormalities in Ringing Bells. Somaiya in his letter asked whether the objective and aim behind the Rs 251 offer had been studied. Has it been investigated if it is a collective investment scheme or a ponzi scheme, he enquired.
After Ringing Bells set Freedom 251 mobile price at just Rs 251 and took the entire country by storm, the Mohit Kumar Goel-led company has come under the scanner of excise and Income Tax Departments over how it has managed to offer a smartphone as cheap as this and also the actual feasibility of the entire deal. Since the government itself says the smartphone should have cost, at its cheapest, at Rs 2,300 and the company has said the mobile phone's cost is around Rs 2,500, the debate rages as to what is going to happen next and some are already referring to it as the Freedom 251 mobile scam. Perhaps, the Income Tax Department will manage to clear the air. <a href="https://www.financialexpress.com/photos/technology-gallery/214613/freedom-251-mobile-priced-at-dirt-cheap-rs-251-all-you-wanted-to-know-in-10-points/"><strong>Freedom 251 mobile priced at dirt cheap Rs 251: All you wanted to know in 10 points </strong></a>
