GONDI & ASSOCIATES
ADVOCATES & SOLICITORS
06th July, 2021
WITHOUT PREJUDICE
DEMAND NOTICE
To,
1. CONTINENTAL ENGINES PRIVATE LIMITED
Having Registered Office at:-
A-21 9 Prithviraj road, New Delhi
DL 110003 IN
Also at:-
A-88, RIICO Industrial Area, Bhiwadi
District Alwar BHIWADI 301019 RJ IN
Email- [email protected]
Our Client :-
Sun Developers & Consultants
Having Registered Office at: -
Office: 1190, Sector ,7-D , Faridabad, Haryana-121006
M: 9811779487 E:
[email protected] GONDI & ASSOCIATES
ADVOCATES & SOLICITORS
Plot No. 28, Sector-8, Faridabad, Haryana 121006
Email-
[email protected] Subject: Legal Notice for Remittance of Payment of Rs.2,25,74,145.71
(Rupees Two Crore Twenty Five Lakh Seventy Four Thousand One
Hundred And Forty Five Rupees And Seventy One Paise only)
payable by Continental Engines Pvt. Ltd. to Sun Developers.
Our Client: SUN DEVELOPERS AND CONSULTANTS
Dear Sir / Ma’am,
Under the instructions of, and on behalf of our Client, SUN DEVELOPERS AND
CONSULTANTS, having it’s Registered Office at Plot No. 28, Sector-8, Faridabad,
Haryana 121006, I, the undersigned, issue the following legal notice to you
(hereinafter referred as “Addressees” ) in unequivocal terms for failure to make
payments towards Invoices raised in lieu of Services availed.
1. That as you addressee is well aware that our Client is a sole Proprietorship Firm
having its registered office at the abovementioned address. Our client has
specialization in the field of Industrial Civil Jobs, Fabrication & Erection Works,
RCC Works, Shed Fabrication, Industrial Epoxy Flooring, Industrial Buildings,
Office: 1190, Sector ,7-D , Faridabad, Haryana-121006
M: 9811779487 E:
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ADVOCATES & SOLICITORS
PU Flooring, Building Maintenance, Design & Installation of Fire Fighting
System, Water Treatment Plants, Demolition of old Buildings, Installation of
False Roofing & Aluminium Partition, Mezzanine Flooring, Floor repairing etc.
2. That you the addressee i.e. CONTINENTAL ENGINES PRIVATE LIMITED is
the company registered with the registrar of Companies, Delhi and is involved
in designing, manufacturing and distribution of aluminum alloy cylinder heads,
blocks, manifolds, gears, housing, brackets, coverings and other critical engine
components. You the addressees claims to be a pioneer in paramount quality
of automotive components. It is stated apart from serving the domestic market
your company manufacture and exports components to a most of the OEM’s
around the world.
3. In the year 2018 you addressee started looking for reliable agency /contractor
for execution civil construction work in your CTC Plant and Continental Foundry
and finally after being impressed by our client’s stellar reputation and expertise
in the field you addressee approached our client to avail their services of civil
works and invited for submission of commercial offer for Civil work along with
cost structure and after detailed discussion and on your assurance of timely
remittance our client had agreed to render their services to your company.
Office: 1190, Sector ,7-D , Faridabad, Haryana-121006
M: 9811779487 E:
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4. It is pertinent to mention here that solely because of the expertise, goodwill and
on the basis of fair price quotation of Our Client, you awarded aforesaid civil
work to Our Client for consideration wherein on request of you addressee our
client executed civil work beyond the scope of as Service Order on your
assurance to generate an additional Purchase Order in due course.
5. That in accordance with the payment schedule and in order to build trust of Our
Client, you addressee initially released part payment which was not even within
the specified timeline as agreed upon, however, keeping in view better future
business relationship with you, Our Client continued to have faith in you thereby
accordingly raised timely invoices toward aforesaid services along with the
applicable taxes.
6. It’s been long since our client is waiting and consistently reminding you
addressees for remittance of the outstanding dues which is too hefty a sum to
let go of. It is evident that despite of the constant reminders you have failed to
pay the dues and always turned your deaf year without giving any heed to the
repeated request of our client in their voluminous emails.
Office: 1190, Sector ,7-D , Faridabad, Haryana-121006
M: 9811779487 E:
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ADVOCATES & SOLICITORS
7. It is pertinent to mention that as per agreed terms the amount claimed shall be
cleared within 30 days from the date of issuance of the respective Invoices
dismay to note that your actions/inactions clearly reflect violation of the said
condition as already agreed. Apropos to mention here that our client had
accepted your proposal and rendered its services at much discounted rates
only on your assurance of timely remittance of the payments.
8. It is pertinent to mention here that solely upon your assurances of timely
payment of consideration, Our Client agreed to execute the work assigned qua
the aforesaid order and moreover our client had done additional works and
modifications (modifications if any) as and when required by you addresses to
your satisfaction without any discomfort and demur and hope you are well
aware that both in law, equity and at any point of time you cannot held our client
liable to bear any loss caused by your acts and omissions in execution of civil
works, you miserably failed to abide by your assurances and illegally retained
hard earned money of Our Client and even failed to raise any valid dispute
regarding the services rendered by our client.
Office: 1190, Sector ,7-D , Faridabad, Haryana-121006
M: 9811779487 E:
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9. As such, it has become imperative for our Client to cause the issuance of the
present demand notice seeking payment failing which; our Client shall be
constrained to take appropriate steps as per law.
10. That it is apposite to mention here that you addressee had made huge claims
in front of our client of having significant business profits, in order, to deceive
our client into believing your false financial creditability, solvency and honest
intention that our client believing all the representations and payment
assurances made by you the addresses decided to enter into business with
you.
11. Please note that our Client has bonafidely sought to claim outstanding pending
amounts from you without the imposition of penalty of the administrative
inconvenience caused by you addressee to our client purely out of goodwill.
12. That our client was surprised with the complete silence being exercised you
addressee even our client requested with folded hands to clear their own
rightful dues, thereby resulting in complete unjustified and uncalled for delay in
the disbursement of the payable invoices.
Office: 1190, Sector ,7-D , Faridabad, Haryana-121006
M: 9811779487 E:
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13. We would like to draw your attention that our client is also engaged in small
business and they are dismally economically affected from the ongoing
situation of pandemic and their financial condition has also become precarious
as they are bound to make and even made some payments to the vendors from
their own pocket keeping aside had earned any penny till date and this
concerned being highlighted to you addressee over an email.
14. That it is also pertinent to mention here that our client has placed all the relevant
documents and correspondences before us, after perusal, of the same, it is
evident that, our client did not receive any genuine complaint qua the services
rendered at any point of time and you the addresses have maintained
conspicuous silence throughout the period in order to harass ,cheat and brow
beat our client.
15. That our client has suffered serve and grave business loss due to your
aforesaid fraudulent and evasive conduct and therefore reserves its right to
claim damages and loss of reputation caused to the business of our client due
to material breach trust and significantly delay in the recovery of the
consideration amount further caused delay in making payments to the vendors
Office: 1190, Sector ,7-D , Faridabad, Haryana-121006
M: 9811779487 E:
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associated with our client to accomplish the assigned work to the satisfaction
of you addressee.
16. That our client further reserves the right to claim damages on account of any
GST mismatch or incapacity to claim any input credit ,penalty due to your
aforesaid mala-fide conduct and much delay in clearing rightful dues of our
client. That our client shall further report to the concerned, Competent and
appropriate authorities in the event of concealment of the aforesaid entries in
your books of accounts. Apropos to mention here that our client has also raised
their concern and time and again requested to issue purchase order for the
rainwater harvesting (CTC), CTC civil work, Borewell work done by our client
as admitted and acknowledge by you addressee in Minutes of Meeting dated
03.07.2019 but of no avail, non-issuance of Purchase Order even after verbal
request from our client’s side clearly show ill intentions of your addressee is to
caused financial loss to our client and illegitimate gain to yourself.
17. That, the non–payment of the invoices amount for a long period in clearly
reflects your un–pragmatic approach in the matter, which is otherwise highly
unwarranted, from which it is also clear that since the inception your intentions
were malafide to cheat and defraud our client and to grab the legitimate amount
Office: 1190, Sector ,7-D , Faridabad, Haryana-121006
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of our client. It is pertinent to note that you addressee did not provide for the
timely taking out of the building material (either rental or our asset) costing us
the rental of those materials. On the top of it, other contractors were permitted
to use those material for other building works. Also, in the middle of taking out
of material with your approval, our client was asked to stop and continue with
the work after 9th June, 2019 for a reason beyond my client’s understanding.
18. That after running from pillar to post Our Client has finally realized that you the
Addressee has not only caused breach of trust entrusted on you but also
dishonestly retained hard earned money of Our Client with no intension to clear
the same. That after assimilation of aforesaid facts, Our Client has forced to
believe that it was never an intention of you the Addressees to make payment
of legitimate amount of Our Client as in spite of the liability of payment aforesaid
dues which you Addressee have been miserably failed to make payment of the
said amount due to Our Client.
19. That you the addresses are reminded that our client can and will take recourse
to all appropriate legal remedies including but not limited to filing complaint
under MSME Act, but also u/s 420/406/120B Indian Penal Code, 1860 for
Cheating, Criminal Breach of Trust, and Criminal Conspiracy, by filing a police
Office: 1190, Sector ,7-D , Faridabad, Haryana-121006
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complaint so that, a fair and proper investigation to be conducted after lodging
First Information Report (FIR).
20. In view of the above, and in light of your failure to pay the aforementioned
amounts to our Client, you are hereby called upon to pay this amount of INR ₹
2,25,74,145.71 /- (Rupees Two Crore Twenty Five Lakh Seventy Four
Thousand One Hundred And Forty Five Rupees And Seventy One Paise
only) along with interest thereon at the rate of 24% per annum (to be calculated
from the respective dates when the constituents of this amount became due
and payable) within 7 days commencing from the receipt of this notice failing
which, our Client will be constrained to take appropriate steps against you, as
per law, without any further notice to you.
21. Please note that, interalia, we are well within our rights to inform your
institutional creditors and/or make appropriate publications in highly circulated
newspapers depicting your financial inability to clear the rightful dues of our
client.
22. Kindly treat this as a peremptory Demand Notice, failure of compliance with the
terms of which will augment initiation of legal proceedings, both civil and
Office: 1190, Sector ,7-D , Faridabad, Haryana-121006
M: 9811779487 E:
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ADVOCATES & SOLICITORS
criminal as are warranted by Law or Equity, the consequences of which are
solely at your risk, costs and peril.
I hope that above reasonable requisition will be complied by you the Addressee
and that there will be no cause in future to participate in the present matter our
client is ready to cooperate with your company in every possible manner and
demand of our client is only limited to the rightful dues as claimed in the present
notice.
A copy of this notice has been retained in our Office and the Office of our Client
for future reference and record.
Sincerely Yours,
Mohit Gondi, Advocate
For Gondi & Associates.
Office: 1190, Sector ,7-D , Faridabad, Haryana-121006
M: 9811779487 E:
[email protected]