Vendors have been demanding unpaid dues from Dunzo

The hyperlocal delivery startup has also been late in depositing TDS from salaries, even as it delays salaries to September.

In a company town hall meeting earlier in July, Dunzo co-founder and CEO Kabeer Biswas informed his staff that only partial salaries for the previous month had been paid for many employees. There was a promise that the amounts would be credited by mid-July and that this delay was just a minor hiccup. Biswas painted a fairly rosy picture. He went on to tell his team that Dunzo had achieved its targets for the first half of the year and it would tide through these problems. 

Obviously, that hasn’t turned out to be the case. The past few days have …

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