Narain son in legal wrangle in Australia over product claims

A son of disgraced former Greytown cult leader Andy Narain - once jailed for crimes committed against his followers and who is now dead - is fighting a legal battle of his own to remain in business in Australia.
Ravi Narain, 43, is the former boss of a North Geelong company that claimed to have found a cure for HIV, the SARS infection and the common cold.
Narain was left off the legal hook on November 30 when a Federal judge dismissed the case against him and ordered the Australian securities and Investment Commission to pay his legal costs.
But the commission has since announced it will appeal the court's decision clearing Narain of misleading or deceptive conduct.
It is also seeking a pecuniary penalty order and an order disqualifying Narain from managing companies in Australia.
Narain was the managing director of Citrofresh International in 2005 when the company made a misleading announcement to the Australian Stock Market.
This involved claims its product could be used as a spray or lotion by men after sex and act as an "invisible condom."
A Federal court found Citrofresh had misled investors by claiming its cleaning products could offer a global solution to HIV and stop SARS and colds.
The company's share price soared until a statement was issued clarifying its product, partly made from oranges, was a disinfectant and not a vaccine.
Late last year Citrofresh's current management moved to distance itself from Narain, and the company's legal battles.
In a statement reported in the Geelong Advertiser chairman Shane Tanner said the company's financial situation was now sound and that it had entered into several agreements with Narain during a company overhaul in late 2006.
These included getting rid of Narain leaving him to his own firm GDM Technologies, selling all remaining stock to Narain, maintaining a right to a 17.5 per cent royalty on all products sold and agreeing to sign off on Narain's other debts to the firm.
Mr Tanner said " unfortunately" Narain had failed to meet any of his financial obligations to the company and legal proceedings to collect these debts were initiated.
Citrofresh then appeared in the Federal Magistrates Court as creditor in a bankruptcy action against Narain, and served a default notice on one of his companies. Narain retaliated by issuing a Supreme Court writ.
It was not served on Citrofresh and Narain later failed to follow through with the claim.
Ravi Narain is the eldest son of Andy and Kushla Narain.
Andy Narain was a New Zealand born Indian and his wife was born in India but moved to Fiji when she was five years old, later coming to live permanently in New Zealand.
The Narain family came to Wairarapa from Upper Hutt when Ravi and his brothers Dilip and Jayant were young boys.
They bought a small apple orchard on Main Street north but later sold it and moved into a large home in West Street.
Andy Narain worked as a property developer, but his company was wound up by order of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
He shifted direction and began his controversial healing ministry that ultimately lead to his downfall and jailing for a variety of offences involving horrifying cruelty and humiliation of his followers.
After serving his sentence Narain moved to Australia where he died of cancer in Sydney in 1998.