Renegade Asian family wrecks havoc in community – Weekly Citizen

Harish Mawjee Devji, a disgruntled, penniless man is on a mission! His mission is the talk within the Asian community more so, after he appeared in a Nairobi court to face threat criminal charges.

Our Investigative Team has found out that Harish, his wife Smita and his son Bhavin, left Kenya for good in 1987.

Despite the three having been assisted to start a new life in the UK in 1987 by his late father Ramniklal, Harish with his family have squandered and lost their business, moveable assets and family home there, all of which had been given to them by a loving father.

Harish and his family obtained UK citizenship because of the business investment his father made for him. The UK house was situated in an upmarket part of London – Stanmore. The business set up for Harish was a thriving jewellery shop called Pattni Jewellers in an equally upmarket location – Wembley, London.

Other relatives assisted to get him a car in the UK. Harish and his family had it all, and their chances to succeed and to build a new life and business empire were much higher than what most others get in their entire lifetime.

Harish

However, success evaded them, and they failed to run the business well as they had not put any effort in setting it up. Once the business wound up, they lost their home as well. It is claimed that it was auctioned due to debts taken on it.

The lack of any income in the UK, together with a need to live beyond means, further complicated by alleged heavy underworld debts incurred in the UK, and just a general desire to “sponge an easy living” off others, resulted in Harish and his family flee the UK and finally returned to Kenya in 2018 to try and establish their lives here again.

Mysteriously, Harish and his family, all of whom had renounced their Kenyan citizenship in 1987 and opted for British citizenship, have now regained their Kenyan IDs and passports under unknown circumstances.

The troublesome trio – Harish, Smita and Bhavin – having tried unsuccessfully to get any form of gainful employment in Kenya, have now hatched a scheme to harass and intimidate their immediate family members including his mother and his siblings, in an attempt to obtain a share of his late father’s estate.

In a case where the greed for money literally makes “blood thinner than water”, there has been a no-holds-barred war against the rest of the family members. It is rumoured that Smita is the information gatherer, Harish is the face and Bhavin who is rumoured to be gay – a trait he picked up in the UK is the brains of their devious operation.

So seriously have these three taken this war on their family that family members have been stalked by the father and son, threats of death have been made against family and friends, and nothing is sacred – rather everyone including women and children – are fair game. To this trio, there is nothing they will not stoop to if the end justifies the means.

In 2012, he destroyed the business premises of his younger brother Bipin, taking a sledgehammer and smashing in the windows at his business because Bipin refused to help him. Despite reporting this incident to the police, Harish got away with his crime by fleeing the country until the matter died down and he returned in 2018.

More recently and specifically after his father passed away, Harish and his son Bhavin, have taken it upon themselves to further harass and intimidate their own mother and grandmother respectively.

The stalking, the death threats and verbal abuse became so intense that Bipin and his mother had to have restraining orders taken out against the father and son duo, with a view of just having some peace in their lives.

However, the father and son, in total disobedience and defiance of the court orders, kept approaching Harish’s mother at her home and social venues and making their threats; to the point that the widowed lady so feared for her life that she decided to flee the country to live with a relative abroad.

So desperate have the three Harish, Smita and Bhavin – become that they are now allegedly conning locals and obtaining money by false pretences to sustain their l i f e s t y l e s . They have been seen in social venues, d i s c r e e t l y t a k i n g pictures on their phones of family m e m b e r s and other individuals and then approaching t h e s e individuals with threats.

B h a v i n , son, is the most educated of the three who carries out internet searches on their “targets”. Then with his father Harish, they approach their “victims” to threaten them with embarrassment through exposure if their demands are not met. Several individuals have defied them and ignored their demands.

However, many have out of fear of embarrassment or not knowing how to deal with such situations succumbed to their threats and paid the ransom demanded.

The trio allegedly live on Brookside Drive and Harish has been seen loitering and walking in the streets of Nairobi, taking images with his phone. Bhavin does not leave the house during the day. He prepares the “material” to be used against their targets during the day. He leaves the house at night and it is said that he also supplements his income in the underground sex trade.

The plot that Harish, Smita and Bhavin have created sounds like it is right out of a Bollywood movie, but it is affecting the lives of several innocent people, including a recently widowed mother and others, who have done nothing to deserve the sort of harassment, abuse and threats that this notorious trio is dishing out.

Our investigative reporters have established that the three still roam freely in Nairobi and all are asked to exercise caution when interacting with them.

By late last week, the family was trying to flee the country after it emerged that a section of the Asian community was planning to petition the immigration department to investigate how they acquired the Kenyan citizenship after denouncing their citizenry. They are now a flight risk and Harish court bond is likely to be cancelled.