Indian Entrepreneur Vasundhara Oswal Cleared Of All Charges By Ugandan Court After Weeks Of Detention

After being wrongfully detained for weeks, the Ugandan judiciary dismissed all charges against Indian entrepreneur Vasundhara Oswal (26) after the complainant failed to appear before the court and failed to produce any evidence against her. The Oswal family has now initiated legal action across multiple jurisdictions to hold the complainant accountable for the damages caused.

The Free Press Journal was the first to report on October 15 about the detention of Oswal. Her father Pankaj Oswal, a Cypriot national and an industrialist known for establishing the world’s largest ammonia plant in Australia, had written to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UN-WGAD) seeking international intervention into the alleged illegal detention of his daughter. He had alleged that she was interrogated under degrading conditions, held without access to legal counsel, family, or basic rights and was slapped with inadmissible charges to prevent her from getting released on bail.

Oswal, who is the executive director of PRO Industries and a known figure on social media, had alleged that the charges against her stem from a former employee of the family who took a loan of USD 200,000 from the family and in turn filed false allegations against her after his family refused to repay it as guarantors. However, the Ugandan judiciary has now dismissed all charges against her after the complainant repeatedly failed to appear, offering no evidence and no testimony to support his claims.

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However, the Oswal family alleged that the complainant is now dragging the false narrative across borders and is trying to manipulate the legal power in Switzerland after failing in Uganda and India. “It is a calculated attempt to escape accountability for his outstanding loans and legal liabilities in India while continuing to weaponise fabricated claims for personal gain. It’s extortion, plain and simple, which has been fabricated as a crime, triggering international legal chaos, then exploiting the confusion for money,” said a statement from the family.

The Oswal family claimed that it has begun legal action across multiple jurisdictions, including India, to hold the complainant and any accomplices accountable for the damage caused by the fraud. It has also urged the authorities to treat this as a cross-border criminal conspiracy to extort through abuse of process.