Indian Ocean Band’s Members React After Co-Founder Sushmit Sen Files Police Complaint Against Them: ‘We Are Saddened to Learn…’

The Indian Ocean’s internal unrest is now rising to the surface. Former member of the legendary fusion band Susmit Sen has lodged a police complaint against Rahul Ram and Amit Kilam, his former colleagues. The complaint makes several accusations against the pair, including theft, deception, criminal conspiracy, and breach of trust. In addition, he has charged Rahul and Amit with having financial violations in the band.
Rahul Ram and Amit Kilam of Indian Ocean have released an official statement in response to a police complaint that was recently made against them by band co-founder Susmit Sen. They said that they ‘haven’t seen a copy of the complaint yet’ and that they learned about the situation ‘from the media.’
The statement began, “We are saddened to learn from the media that a police complaint has been filed against us by Mr Susmit Sen (Former member of Indian Ocean) and Ms Sunita Chakravorty (Spouse of former Indian Ocean member Asheem Chakravorty). We have not seen a copy of the complaint as yet and thus cannot address it on its merits.”
In their statement, they added that the shareholders had been involved in a pending dispute before the National Company Law Tribunal for more than a year. “There is a pending matter in the NCLT (National Company Law Tribunal) between the share holders for more than a year. That case is still in process, and thus everything therein is sub-judice. It is thus quite a surprise to us that a police complaint has been filed with what appears to be the same issue considered by NCLT. Filing of a criminal complaint on what is evidently a civil law issue seems to be an afterthought and to arm twist us to agree to their illegal and unwarranted demands, ” read the statement further.
India Today reports that on August 16 in Delhi, Susmit lodged a police complaint against Rahul and Amit. Along with Sunita Chakravarty, the late Ashim Chakravarty’s wife and co-founder of Indian Ocean, Susmit filed the lawsuit. The business that manages the Indian Ocean band, Kandisa Music Productions Pvt Ltd, has also been mentioned in the complaint.
About Indian Ocean Band
Susmit founded the Indian Ocean in 1990. Three bass players were tried out by the band in its first year of existence: Indrajit Dutta, Anirban Roy, and RC Arya. Shaleen Sharma played drums for the group.
Susmit convinced Rahul Ram, a former St. Xavier’s School classmate, to enrol in 1991 after they first met. Amit Kilam enrolled in 1994. It went on to establish the band that is now well-known to all. One of the most well-known bands to come out of India’s indie music movement in the 1990s is this Delhi-based group. Asheem tragically went away in 2009, shocking both his fans and his bandmates.