[Resolved]  Airtel — Unfair & repeated balance deduction

On 30/09/2016 I got an SMS from Airtel (AG-NTAROT) saying that Rs. 95 internet pack, 380 MB 3G valid for 14 days has been renewed. Post free usage, charges @ 40p/10 KB. I called up Airtel customer care (198) and informed its executive about this plan I did not opt for. I also asked him for deactivating the plan and to refund me my money (the amount of Rs. 95).

He said that he did not only refund me the amount of Rs. 95 to my main mobile balance account but also deactivated the plan. I then checked my main mobile balance and found that I actually got the refund.

On 14/10/16 I found that an amount of Rs. 95 again automatically got deducted from my main mobile balance.

On 15/10/16, I called Airtel again and informed its executive that the last time when I mentioned the similar problem to your executive he said that he deactivated this auto renewal plan but now I find that I lost my money again.

He too assured me that he would refund my money but would not be able to deactivate the plan due to some technical problem. He rather asked me to deactivate the plan on my own. I was ready to deactivate the plan only after the refund of my money. I waited for my money to get refunded into my main mobile balance as per what he said but got no refund or even an SMS from Airtel, notifying me or even indicating me that I got my refund.

On 20/10/16 I called Airtel again and asked them about my outstanding amount of Rs. 95. The executive said that the amount was already refunded into my main mobile balance. When I asked him for a written statement via SMS or email, he said that he could not. He then asked me to wait till he would transfer the call to his supervisor but then he hung up the phone.

I called back Airtel and repeated my concern.The executive this time too declined to provide me a written statement via SMS or email which would state that "Rs. 95 has been refunded to my main balance account".

On 28/10/2016 I again got an SMS from Airtel notifying me about the deduction of Rs. 95 from my main balance account, as usual. This happened in spite of complaining to Airtel over and over again even via emails (that I wrote to [protected]@in.airtel.com, [protected]@in.airtel.com, nodalofficer.[protected]@in.airtel.com, airtel.[protected]@airtel.com, [protected]@airtel.com, myairtel.[protected]@airtel.com), as well as to its executives via their customer care number (198).

Also, I had a telephonic conversation which was an outbound call from Airtel's customer care number as [protected] at 12:21 PM on[protected]. The executive repeatedly kept on saying that all my unfairly deducted amount of Rs. 95 were refunded and that a similar detail was also showing in Airtels system. I asked her to send me the written statement of the same. Also asked her to send me a written statement showing my mobile data balance before the deduction of Rs. 95 and the after statement and also the statement showing my main mobile balance amount after adding the amount of Rs. 95 by Airtel (as what she claimed that Airtel did). She assured me that she would email me the same. She also assured me that this scheme of auto deduction of Rs. 95 on every fortnight from my main balance account had also been deactivated.

Honest, when I checked my main mobile balance I found that no such refund as she claimed were made. Also, I got no email from Airtel providing me the statement that I asked it for. I also have the complete call recorded of that executive. I can also provide the same to the consumer court if asked.

On[protected], the amount of Rs. 95 again automatically got deducted from my main mobile balance account in a similar fashion.

I attached some screen shots among which some are mentioning the balance in my main mobile balance account on certain dates. They clearly indicate that Airtel has been lying to me about the refund and cheating on me for months on every fortnight.

Finally, my main mobile balance account is lesser than the amount of Rs. 40 and thus this time Airtel's auto renewal plan did not work. See the attached file for the same.