LEGAL NOTICE
To,
Addressee's name
Addressee's address
Dear Sir,
Under instructions from and on behalf of my client, Client's name, S/o Client's father's name, R/o Client's address, I have to serve upon you the present legal notice to the following effect:
1.That my client has known you, the Addressee, since the year Year of acquaintance. My client and you, the Addressee, have worked together at Place of employment, where my client was appointed as Client's designation, and you, the Addressee, were also serving as Addressee's designation.
2.In the month of Month of loan request, Year of loan request, you approached my client with an urgent request for financial assistance, stating that you were in dire need of a sum of ₹Loan amount in figures for personal use. Based on your representations and the amicable relationship between you, the Addressee, and my client, my client agreed out of goodwill to assist you by advancing the said amount. On Date of money transfer, my client transferred a sum of ₹Loan amount in figures to you, the Addressee, via Mode of transfer. You assured my client that this amount would be returned within a period of Agreed repayment period.
3.After the expiry of the said period in Month when repayment fell due, my client contacted you on multiple occasions requesting the return of the said amount. However, you continuously delayed the repayment, citing numerous reasons and seeking further time. Despite repeated requests and follow-ups made by my client, you failed to return the said amount advanced by my client. You made numerous false assurances that the amount would be returned soon, but these promises were never honoured. Your conduct, including repeated delays and false assurances, indicates that you had no genuine intention to repay the amount of my client from the very beginning.
4.That my client has made multiple efforts to contact you with the intent of amicably resolving the matter. However, all such efforts have been in vain owing to your deliberate and dishonest actions. Your deliberate refusal to repay the amount owed constitutes a breach of the trust and goodwill extended to you by my client. Your actions are fraudulent and amount to unjust enrichment at the expense of my client.
5.That it appears that your intentions are neither clean nor bonafide, and you have cheated and thereby deceived my client in this regard. From your conduct, it is abundantly clear that your sole intention was to cheat my client and usurp his money by giving false assurances, thereby causing wrongful gain to yourself and wrongful loss to my client. You, the Addressee, are also liable to criminal action for cheating my client, for which my client shall proceed against you in accordance with law as advised.
6.That my client has given you, the Addressee, more than adequate time to liquidate the said amount, and your silence is interpreted as a deliberate attempt to procrastinate the matter. That my client is not prepared to bear with the situation any longer and has instructed us to initiate appropriate proceedings against you, the Addressee, for recovery of the said amount along with interest, in addition to filing criminal case(s) against you, the Addressee, for the unlawful acts being committed by you.
Therefore, as per the information provided by my client, an amount of ₹Loan amount in figures (₹Loan amount in words only) is payable by you, the Addressee, to my client, along with interest payable @Rate of interest per annum p.a. on the said amount; and your failure to pay the said loan amount entitles my client to claim interest in addition to any legal costs that may arise as a result of settling my client's grievances before the court of law due to your default in making the payment on time.
Therefore, we call upon you, the Addressee, to remedy the default and:
(a)To return the loan amount of ₹Loan amount in figures (₹Loan amount in words only) along with interest @Rate of interest per annum p.a. from Month of loan request, Year of loan request till realisation of the payment; and
(b)To pay ₹Damages amount in figures (₹Damages amount in words only) as damages on account of loss of business and mental harassment.
(c)To pay ₹Cost of legal notice towards the cost of this legal notice.
OR
(d)To prepare to face legal action, both civil and criminal, before the court of law for the aforementioned recovery of the loan amount and also damages on account of the mental harassment caused to my client.
We await your prompt response to this legal notice within Response period in figures (Response period in words) calendar days from the date of delivery of this legal notice.
A copy of the same is being retained in my office for future reference and action.
Yours faithfully,
(Advocate's name)
Advocate
Place of issue of notice, Date of notice