Brampton family sues RSG Law over withheld mortgage funds; lawsuits and investigations mount against Raj Grewal-founded firm
The last thing Nitan Waryah wanted was a court battle to recover the money his family is legally entitled to after they purchased a home earlier this year. But that is exactly the position he was forced into when RSG Law allegedly failed to pay off his parents’ mortgage when their son bought their house, leaving the Brampton family carrying two mortgages for the same property.
Harvinderjit and Surinder Waryah filed a statement of claim on June 5 against RSG Law and its lawyer Davinder Singh Khattra for breach of fiduciary duty. The lawsuit alleges the defendants, RSG Law and Khattra, failed to properly execute their duties to transfer the mortgage funds after Nitan purchased his parents’ house.
Surinder and Harvinderjit decided to downsize in their retirement—which was accelerated by a recent illness that prevented Surinder from working. According to the claim, Harvinderjit and Surinder sold the home to Nitan for $1,060,000 with a closing date of April 15, 2026.
The family decided to hire RSG Law, a Mississauga-based firm founded by lawyer and former Brampton MP Raj Grewal. The name RSG represents his initials.
The lawyer at the firm who represented the family was Davinder Singh Khattra, and he acted on their behalf for the sale. As previously reported by The Pointer, RSG Law was given the specific duty to hold the closing funds in an RSG Law trust account, and pay out the mortgage to Scotiabank, then disburse the remaining proceeds to the sellers, the Waryahs.
Nitan, through his lawyers, transferred $714,301.42 to RSG Law’s trust account for the closing as was agreed upon. From that amount, $512,344.57 was to be paid to Scotiabank to discharge the mortgage, and $1,956.85 was to be paid to RSG Law for fees, with the remaining $200,000 to go to the sellers as their net proceeds.
That is not what happened.
RSG Law failed to disburse the funds to Harvinderjit and Surinder, or to Scotiabank. The mortgage was not discharged, and the plaintiffs did not receive their sale proceeds.
When Nitan asked RSG Law what happened, the firm responded, telling him the funds had been frozen in RSG Law’s trust account.
The firm’s bank account had been frozen after an injunction sought by Scotiabank when the financial institution identified more than $6 million in fraudulent cheques, with some of the proceeds from those cheques ending up in the accounts of RSG Law.
The fraudulent cheques were connected to a Brampton law firm, Rajkiran Sidhu Law Professional Law Corporation (RSL), which issued $6,095,000 in three cheques deposited into a trust account with Scotiabank on April 14. The cheques were later found to have been drawn on fake accounts.
The court injunction materials do not allege wrongdoing by RSG Law, and legal counsel for the firm said RSG had no reason to suspect the transactions that led to funds being deposited into its trust accounts were fraudulent.
While the matter was unfolding, RSG Law was hired by the Waryah family to handle the mortgage transfer following the home sale.
As Nitan grew increasingly concerned and repeatedly contacted Khattra, the family’s lawyer at RSG Law, Raj Grewal, the firm’s founder, called Nitan over the phone, assuring him that the family’s money would be provided by May 15.
This did not happen.
The lawsuit specifically states that, “Following inquiries regarding the status of the mortgage discharge funds, Raj Grewal, RSG Law’s founder, advised the Plaintiffs son, Nitan Waryah, that he would get the Plaintiffs their money by May 15, 2026. Despite this assurance, the funds were not remitted.”
After weeks of waiting, the money still was not transferred, forcing the Waryahs to file their lawsuit.
Grewal is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit, and it alleges no wrongdoing by him.
Raj Grewal told Nitan he sold the firm two years ago and is no longer involved with RSG Law’s operations.
RSG Law is involved in a separate legal battle involving a land transaction in the Brantford area and a $5.5 million lawsuit by a large multinational real estate asset management company that alleges the firm and Raj Grewal’s father, Avtar Singh Grewal, engaged in fraud and conspiracy in a scheme to abscond with the company’s money. The lawyer representing Avtar Singh Grewal and RSG Law previously declined to answer questions because the matter is before the court.
Despite Raj Grewal’s claims that he sold RSG Law two years ago and stopped his involvement with the firm’s operations, The Pointer’s previous reporting shows Grewal appeared on the company website as the principal lawyer until the website was changed sometime between December 2025 and January 2026, with his name and photo removed. As the firm’s legal problems were unfolding Google Reviews also previously appeared online thanking Raj Grewal for his work with RSG in recent months. RSG Law has since had the reviews removed.
Raj Grewal also appeared as RSG Law’s leader in a paid article for the firm published in the Toronto Star in July of last year—a month after the allegedly fraudulent Brantford-area land sale—that advertised Grewal as the visionary behind RSG Law with direct quotes from him in the sponsored article and a large photo of Grewal.
Court records since reviewed by The Pointer show Raj Grewal was acting as a lawyer with RSG Law as recently as November.
In throwing out the client’s application for a Judicial Review after the federal government issued an order that Grewal’s client could not remain in Canada, Judge Grant pointed out that Grewal had previously failed to understand which government order against his client was the matter related to the Judicial Review he sought.
The timeframe to challenge the government decision Grewal thought was in question had already passed and Grewal missed the filing deadline.
When he brought forward the application for the Judicial Review of that decision, with the deadline already passed, it was clear to Judge Grant that what Grewal was trying to do on behalf of his client involved a different order by the federal government. The Judge wrote in his decision that though he could have thrown out the case because of Grewal’s failure, he allowed the application to proceed and would consider the correct government order against the client, not the one Grewal mistakenly identified in the original application for Judicial Review.
But things did not get better for Grewal.
In his scathing decision, eventually throwing out the application, Justice Grant wrote:
In awarding costs for the proceeding, the Judge ordered that: “In these circumstances, I am satisfied that Mr. Grewal’s failure to appear at the scheduled hearings, together with his total lack of communication with the Court until the morning of the hearing, amounts to special reasons for the awarding of costs in this matter, and for those costs to be paid by Mr. Grewal personally.”
The case unfolded up until the middle of November, with Grewal as a lawyer for RSG Law (which is listed as the solicitor of record in the court documents), representing his client, and failing to show up for hearings scheduled as recently as October 21 of last year, months after RSG Law was allegedly engaged in a fraudulent Brantford-area land sale that also allegedly involved Grewal’s father.
Grewal has declined to answer questions from The Pointer. He was asked why, if he is no longer involved with RSG Law, he contacted Nitan Waryah last month and promised the money owed by the firm would be returned by May 15 (which never happened).
Former Brampton MP Raj Grewal, who founded RSG Law, claims he sold the law firm two years ago. Evidence suggests otherwise, including the company’s website which listed him as the principal lawyer until at least December 2025, prior to the website’s alteration sometime before late January, before it was almost completely scrubbed following a May 14 article by The Pointer.
The lawsuit filed by the Waryahs alleges RSG Law and Davinder Singh Khattra failed to act in the plaintiffs’ best interests and to properly handle trust funds, breaching the contract to fulfill obligations under the retainer agreement, including disbursement of funds as directed.
The suit also accuses RSG Law of negligence, as the firm allegedly failed to exercise the standard of care expected of a competent solicitor in safely handling a clients’ funds.
The Waryahs are seeking damages of up to $850,000 which includes $200,000 from the sale proceeds not received by the plaintiffs, $512,344.57 in mortgage discharge funds not paid to Scotiabank, additional amounts required to discharge the mortgage, legal fees and other costs.
Questions were sent to Simon Bieber, the lawyer representing RSG Law. He is also representing Raj Grewal in his lawsuit against The Pointer.
Bieber responded: “RSG will defend and address the allegations in Court. Mr. Grewal cannot explain why the plaintiffs have drafted their claim the way they have. But the actual facts are clear about Mr. Grewal’s role at RSG and we again urge accuracy in any reporting.”
This is not the first time that RSG Law has found itself embroiled in legal battles.
The $5.5 million lawsuit that was filed against RSG Law and Raj Grewal’s father, Avtar Singh Grewal was brought forward by WIGI Restructured Bond Corporation and also names RSG Law lawyer Davinder Khattra.
The allegations relate to Bell Meadows, a nearly 100-acre property, which was purchased by a developer last year from a numbered company which Avtar Singh Grewal was a director of. A mortgage of about $3.6 million had been provided by WIGI when Avtar Grewal’s company had acquired the land. When his company sold it to the developer in June of 2025, WIGI, under its mortgage contract, was supposed to receive funds from the sale to pay off the mortgage. RSG Law represented Avtar Singh Grewal and his partners in the transaction. WIGI never got its money from RSG Law.
Judge Fred Myers described RSG Law, its lawyer Davinder Singh Khattra and Avtar Singh Grewal’s conduct as a “dishonest scheme,” following the firm’s failure to comply with a court order to disclose where millions from the land deal with the developer had gone.
Following publication of an article detailing the court proceedings, Raj Grewal filed a lawsuit against The Pointer for $12 million, and the websites of RSG Law and his development firm RSG Group were scrubbed the day after the article’s publication.
Using the online Wayback Machine website, which saves and stores billions of webpages at different points in time, and shows the page versions before they were changed, The Pointer published evidence showing Raj Grewal was involved with RSG Law throughout the period covered by the court orders dealing with the WIGI matter and the matter of the fraudulent cheques.
The Pointer has initiated a defence against Raj Grewal’s $12 million lawsuit and intends to have it thrown out as a SLAPP suit (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation); an attempt by Grewal to prevent important public interest journalism from being published.
The Waryahs have not had a court date set for their lawsuit against RSG Law and its lawyer, Davinder Singh Khattra.
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