Civil case - with Bajaj Finserv Civil case - with Bajaj Finserv

4 years ago

I borrowed loan from Bjaj Finserv (Details attached) and paid 36/60 emi as of now.

During this i had very bad experience from collection agents/staff from Bajaj Finserv. During this i tried to explain my problem as, it started in Feb 2017 with medical issues kept me down for few months and then i left my job due to it. I came strongly out of it and doing some financial plans to avoid overdue. Because of job crunch in my field, i couldn't find alternate which suits with previous job, my requirements and payback bank emi. With the help of my savings and insurance i managed pay for these months.

Later on i got job in bangalore and was paying my emi's little late as my salary dates were not matching with the emi dates. At this time i was able to pay emi with late fee of 1200 as bank demands. As they couldn't understood my problem they start to send email to my higher authorities(Head of Dept., Director, Director placement, Director Admission and so on) for building record against me.

This way my personal information are bee shared with other and humiliated by calling BEGAR (by Irfan Sheikh). Also they called to job reference people and shouted on them too. With all these my reputation of 9+ years of experience and good track record are been damaged. As continuous mail sent to my higher authorities, i lost my job even though with good experience and track record. without job i faced lot of struggle to run my personal and family expenses (family includes parents who are senior citizens and recently married wife). This created lot of face down, stress within me and unable to pay emi.

I need help now to face it. I want claim for damage of reputation and job.

Kishan Dutt Kalaskar

Responded 4 years ago

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A.Dear Sir,
You have to face it boldly and if possible you may come to my office or rely upon the following judgment and also approach Civil Court seeking restraint order against them not to interfere with your personal life and they may approach Civil Court for recovery.
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ICCI Bank Limited vs. Prakash Kaur case,

The Supreme Court in a landmark judgement reiterated its earlier stand that banks cannot deploy musclemen for recovery of loans from defaulters thus forcing them to end their lives.

"We deem it appropriate to remind the banks and other financial institutions that we live in a civilised country and are governed by the rule of law," a bench comprising Justices Tarun Chatterjee and Dalveer Bhandari said.

The court while dismissing the ICICI Bank's plea refused to delete the Delhi High Court's remarks that held the bank and its musclemen responsible for abetting a youth to commit suicide by humiliating him and taking away his motorcycle financed by the largest private sector bank.

It also asked the ICICI Bank to to pay Rs 25,000 as cost of this litigation to the respondents within three weeks and directed the Delhi Police to conclude the investigation against the bank expeditiously within three months, keeping in view the gravity of the allegations.

The court also directed the concerned Deputy Commissioner of Police to submit the investigation report in the Delhi High Court.

According to the court, complaints received by Reserve Bank regarding violation of the above guidelines and adoption of abusive practices followed by banks recovery agents would be viewed seriously.

Reiterating the RBI Guidelines on Engagement of Recovery Agents, the court said, "The Reserve Bank may consider imposing a ban on a bank from engaging recovery agents in a particular area, either jurisdictional or functional, for a limited period. In case of persistent breach of above guidelines, Reserve Bank may consider extending the period of ban or the area of ban."

"RBI had expressed its concern about the number of litigations filed against the banks in the recent past for engaging recovery agents who have purportedly violated the law," Justice Bhandari, writing the verdict for the bench, stated.

RBI in a letter accompanying its April 24, 2008 Guidelines had stated that it might consider imposing a ban on a bank from engaging recovery agents in a particular area, either jurisdictional or functional, for a limited period.

ICICI Bank had moved the apex court seeking deletion of some paragraphs in the High Court order which had said that "...the proximate cause of death of the deceased that led him to commit suicide was on account of humiliation caused by the Bank people from where loan was taken by him."

"The modus-operandi employed by the banks like ICICI for realisation of their loan amount and for recovering the possession of the vehicle against which loans are given is extra legal and by no stretch of imagination they can be permitted to employ musclemen and goons for recovery of their dues even from a defaulting party," the High Court had observed.

The High Court order had come on a petition filed by Shanti Devi Sharma, the deceased's mother, seeking a probe against the ICICI bank and its staff for the unlawful action, which led to the suicide of her 34-year old son Himanshu Dev Sharma.

Sharma had committed suicide in October 2005 by hanging himself at his house after he was allegedly intimidated and humiliated in front of his neighbours and family by recovery agents employed by the bank for recovering the loan amount taken for his motorcycle.

The ICICI Bank had contended that it was within its rights to recover loans and had followed the required procedure for recovering dues.

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