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VWe lived in a large society in Bangalore where we were using the sports club inside the society. But we moved out o f India after vacating the flat. We now live outside India ever since 2019. We have missed the deadline on paying the dues to this club when we moved out in 2018. They have sent some reminders but it has been missed by us as we were in the phase of an international move. They stoped alerting us 4 months into 2019 and the last email we have says they have placed out account on deactivation and we can’t use any facilities. Now out of the blue, an email has arrived with a 2.5 lakh dues which we are asked to clear. This includes account reactivation charges, 1 year advance payment for the next year and continuous membership charges on a deactivated account, taxes and GST on both principal and dues.
When moving out our landlord who transferred their membership to us didn’t check that we have an NOC. They have the responsibility for the membership. In the letter of transfer it is stated that if we vacate without clearing dues, they are responsible. To one of the club emails in 2019, we responded back asking why they were invoicing us after we vacated and we didn’t hear back. They have then deactivated our account at the same time when they stopped alerting us but kept on charging the monthly and the taxes on the dues.
We have no ideas of moving back to India so we don’t like to reactivate this membership. We can correct our mistake to clear the dues until the account was active. But it feels unfair to charge us on a deactivated account and chase us for payments of services not offered.
What options do we have? Any insights would be helpful.
We are really looking for a legal opinion on what are our options. Any good lawyer contact would be immensely appreciated.
Original dues were around 1.5k INR. They pulled it to 4.5k INR before deactivation. Now after 7 years, it’s 2.5lakh INR.
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VIn fact there are no invoices, as in real invoices generated against a business registration. They are holding us for the fact that we missed their deadline. Happy to clear dues but only what’s legit.
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BIf you’ve got no plans of coming back to India, just ignore them. They can’t legally enforce a ghost invoice across borders, especially without proper documentation.
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VIn the middle of my citizenship application elsewhere and don’t want this to haunt me. And looks like without a response they will keep growing their imaginary due.
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VAlso found out from just looking at their Google reviews, that they have done this to others. Much less sum involved but seems like they do this regularly.
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