Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 5: Poor people of Jammu who once subscribed to Tata Photon are a jittery lot as eight months after Tata teleservices left J&K, threatening calls from 'advocates' seeking balance payments are haunting them. "I got a call from Delhi, a lady calling herself Advocate Renuka Chowdhary, from Delhi High Court in a very rude language told me that I had a hearing at Delhi High Court tomorrow and I had to be there, else a non bailable warrant would be issued against me," said Vikas Sharma, a former Photon User from Akhnoor.
When he asked her that he didn't get any legal notice for that she said that they had sent it but he didn't receive it. "She said that a case of fraud had been registered against me, after a long discussion she said that Rs. 1800 were still outstanding against my last bill of Tata Photon, which I have not paid and If did not pay it within two days, a warrant will be issued against me," he added.
Vikas said that he was not sure, whether the call was genuine or not, there is no office of the Tata Photon left in Jammu after January 16, when they wound up their operations in the state.
"I don't know whether the call was genuine or not, she gave me a bank account number of Jammu and Kashmir Bank, where I had to deposit the amount, but if the call was genuine, why should I pay this amount in a bank account?" asked Vikas.
"I have not withdrawn the connection, the company has withdrawn its services, in fact they should compensate us, I have brought a device from them worth Rs.2000, which is of no use now, they should take it back and return our security deposit, how can they register a case against me," he added.
The company had withdrawn its bid for spectrum allocation for Jammu and Kashmir and winded up from the state on January 16 this year.
Before closing the operations, the officials have verbally told the subscribers that the users don't have to pay the last bill, as the company is not taking back their devices.
Many others also have got this kind of call, some of them have deposited the bill and some of them have not, but everyone is still confused whether the calls were genuine.
Arun Gupta, former subscriber of Photon from Udhampur said, "I also got a call, but I had deposited the amount in the account given by them in Jammu and Kashmir Bank."
Ajay Magotra, an Advocate in Jammu said, "If a case is registered against someone, they should send a notice to him, the court do not call anyone on phone, that too on that short notice, we cannot say that the call is fraud, but depositing an amount against a phone call is not safe." |
